SUO: 3D / 4D
Regarding 3D / 4D. There is a film "Memento" that offers some insight
into the malleability of memory and time. At first the plot seems a
take off on the old TV series / movie "The Fugitive" but turns out very
differently. The main character's wife was murdered by intruders and in
a fight with the intruders he suffers brain damage that results in his
inability to make any new memories - beyond approximately 15 minutes at
a time which he then forgets.
His memory of events before the attack is intact. Every morning when he
wakes up and periodically throughout the day, he has to figure out where
he is and what is happening in his life. In one scene he suddenly
realizes he is running on a street, sees another man running and thinks
he is chasing the man. Then the man fires several shots at him and he
realizes he is being chased. He devises aids to help him extend his
memory over time - e.g. Polaroid pictures that he annotates and
randomly reorders. For more persistent memory he uses tattoos. Of
course, there is of the problem of context.
There are scenes where something happens and the viewer interprets the
scene, then one sees what happened immediately before this scene that
allows one to interpret it in a way the main character cannot. The film
has alternating scenes in color and in black and white - the color moves
forward in time, the black and white moves backward in time. They are
joined in the first scene which is the first/last scene of the
narrative. This is an intricate and deliberately confusing film. There
are several web sites that are devoted to interpreting the meaning (and
solving the mystery) of the film. The mystery is not resolved (at least
to most viewers) in the film.
Its no longer in the theaters but is available to rent - I strongly
recommend DVD vs video tape.
Bob