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Darkness and a scratching, whirring noise.
The beginning of the movie is accompanied by a disturbing sound and the screen is black.

Darkness and then, slowly, the pictures shudder in sight.
Gradually, the images become visible on the screen, but they are shaky.

A building string of images like silvery bubbles surfacing from the deep.
Scenes appear one after another and they seem unreal, like bubbles emerging from under the water.

It's almost always raining, drizzling, misting, slightly, lightly, heavily, but almost always dripping.
The weather is gloomy and rainy throughout the movie.

The kitchen faucet marking time.
The sound of a dripping faucet is used to show the passage of time.

Camera pans across it through washed out black and white Tin-tack.
The camera moves slowly, showing the black and white scenes of the movie that look faded and worn out.

Across the dark, the color a saturated smear; The Lighting Director's guiding the highlights all the time.
The dark scenes in the movie are shown with bright highlights to create a contrast.

The print is scratchy and smells mildewy... too much rain.
The physical copy of the movie is old and damaged due to the damp climate.

Stomach's empty... the fridge is a booming echo chamber.
The character in the movie is hungry and the empty fridge makes a loud sound, highlighting the emptiness.

They edit in stock horror darkening footage of starvation, atrocities, Vietnam war footage, descending through it.
The movie includes disturbing clips of war and famine, adding to the overall bleakness.

The crackling of outtake sections litter the stairwell, serpentine and yet brittle, a close crop.
There are leftover clips of the movie that are lying around and making a crackling noise, adding to the unsettling atmosphere.

Zoom to feet descending, descending, descending, descending, descending.
The camera focuses on the feet of someone going down the stairs or descending something else, showing a downward trajectory.

Frames skipping and jumping in vertical crash scratching.
The frames of the movie are jumpy and have a scratched effect, making it difficult to watch.

The hallway to street sub-lit in shadow, casting rotting thick as broken glass shards, and the reflections sparkle in the rain-speckled sidewalk.
The hallway leading to the street is dark and gloomy, and there are broken glass shards lying around. The rain creates a reflective effect on the sidewalk.

It's always raining.
The movie has a recurring theme of constant rain to add a sense of despair.

But that's the way this film runs.
The film is intentionally made to have a gloomy and bleak vibe.

The scenes seem clear, but the final print is always too grainy or scratched...
The scenes in the movie seem to make sense, but the final copy that the audience sees is damaged and unclear.

Blurs the longer you watch it and finally just falls away to clips and snapshots of its former glory.
The longer the audience watches the movie, the more unclear and blurry it becomes until it becomes just a collection of clips and scenes.

Loop that frames the whole world outside, often running in slow motion.
There is a repeating sequence of scenes that show the outside world, and it is often shown in slow motion.

Perhaps the projectionist has nodded off in a stupor during the last showing, his elbow hitting a switch, and for a second, or a week, the world runs in reverse, the images all silent, filmed and jerking nervously back across the streets.
There is a suggestion that the world is moving backwards, as if the projectionist has fallen asleep and pressed a button by mistake.

Time is fiction.
The concept of time is manipulated in the movie, adding to the surreal vibe.