April 9th, 2011
"With its real-time synchronization, "The Clock" has upped the ante exponentially"

Zadie Smith on the 24-hour long ‘real time’ film, The Clock:

We are tied to the wagon and it’s going in only one direction, whether we like it or not.

Film constantly reenacts and dramatizes this struggle with time: except in film, time loses. We are victorious. Narrative is victorious. We bend time to our will. 

Only in the fictional realm can we beat the clock, sort of speak.

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