creating/editing a story's pace is one of the primary challenges of movie making...as a storyteller with motion pictures at my disposal... i look to create a biological and psychic ecosystem that sustains viewers...where you feel compelled to physically and socially collaborate in a larger story...
parallel storytelling movies...such as mismo...crash...amores perros...present filmmakers with an additional 'pacing' challenge...you have more characters than a typical movie...yet you are expected to sustain a story-consuming experience that parallels that of a typical movie with just a few characters...that is...most people want to see all the characters early in the story...
yet there is a finite and contracting sense of time when telling stories...stories as told...get narrower...not wider in expression...you are led to something...everything contributes to that something...but the story is always funneling...
so one has to be creative in getting everybody in...but not just in...but in at the right time...when it feels right...not just inserting characters in for the sake of getting them in...just doesn't feel natural...
how do you know when it's natural...we will look at that in my next submission...
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