What to expect
Kubrick makes chronology part of the suspense. Returning to the same hour reveals how an apparently clean plan depends on unstable people, small humiliations, and information that refuses to stay contained.
How to ease in
Do not worry when time moves backwards. Each return follows a different participant; the repeated clock is the film showing how the pieces overlap.
Heads-up
A meticulously timed racetrack robbery is retold from the angles most likely to break it.
I enjoy the plan most when the film quietly shows how many strangers it needs. Precision looks impressive, but every extra hand gives chance another place to enter.
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I enjoy the plan most when the film quietly shows how many strangers it needs. Precision looks impressive, but every extra hand gives chance another place to enter.
— Momo
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