Word: non-linear
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Damaged Ground is a student-written play with impressive ambition. Kaye's creation is a "multi-media dance-theater piece" principally dealing with the circumstances and characters in Apartheid South Africa. The piece is dream-like and non-linear, aiming to question Apartheid and involve the audience in an emotional environment filled with conflict and tension evident in the country. Damaged Ground promises to be an experiment, given the mix of straight theater, straight dance and abstract movement theater. On a technical level, engineered and live sound, video and creative lighting and set design will be integrated into the production...
Waco works hard to humanize the Branch Davidians, but spends most of its energies condemning the behavior of the ATF. Conspiracies abound as the film jumps from one facet of the conflict to another. This non-linear progression highlights the worst errors...
...thread his scenes together. He presents his readers with a scene and then, subtly, shows how it came to be. The early appearance of Stuart's diary, for example, is explained by a later scene wherein his wife snoops through his desk and alights on a computer disk. His non-linear development echoes the innovation of the cubist painters as it fragments, abstracts and reconfigures the narrative...
...then again, Oppenheimer lives in a different world. It is a fantastical, non-linear universe where he is in complete control of images and ideas that, above all, move fast...
...anything, "Sling Blade" spreads the wealth so broadly over so many characters and events that the dramatic focus meanders. A little Tarantino-style, non-linear narration might have added some tension, but then again, Karl's story should be as steady and straightforward...