''But realism, for its part, requires us to go ever deeper into the interior of the situation itself, to expand, ever farther back, the chain of sensations, perceptions, and emotions which make human animals into beings to whom stories happen, beings who make promises, believe in promises, or cease to believe in them. As such, it is no longer with the of cial deployment of time that situations are confronted, but with their own immanent limit: there, where lived time is connected with pure repetition, there, where human speech and gestures tend toward those of animals.' '
''The time after is not the morose, uniform time of those who no longer believe in anything. It is the time of pure, material events, against which belief will be measured for as long as life will sustain it.''
-- - "Bela Tarr the Time After"
In the book "Bela Tarr the Time After", the author mentions Bela Tarr's views on realism and time in films. Realism allows us to explore the situation of the protagonist, a series of feelings, Cognition and emotion make people the subject of the story. Whale Circus does not tell a story, but recreates situations for the audience: Janos is alone in a bar and a deserted street in the opening sequence, Eszter focuses on the situation of self-isolation in music theory, or the situation in Central Europe The plight of the people of the small town. It's a movie that is tied together by the situations of the characters.
After the small town riots, Janos was locked up in a mental hospital, sitting on a hospital bed with his feet in the air, showing no response to the musicians around him. Eszter crossed the square and saw the giant whale abandoned on the ground, also watching him with eternal eyes. This is time. Time is pure, it is not measured by human life, and nothing changes.
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