Cinco tramas imbricadas y energía mental de primera
One of Lost’s most distinctive traits is its temporal play - with embedded flashbacks, replays, hints of time travel, and now flash forwards, the show creates complexity by manipulating narrative time. While fansites try to make sense of the show’s chronology, the experience of synchronicity across episodes is hard to grasp through the interface of the timeline. This expertly made fan video offers a remixed perspective of the show’s defining incident, the crash of Flight 815, that captures Lost’s emotional engagement while synchronizing the timeline. Cutting across three seasons and multiple locations, the remix employs split-screens more typical of 24 or Timecode to highlight how many layers of action comprise Lost’s narrative world. By the end of the video, with five simultaneous threads of action, we can appreciate how much mental energy goes into viewers making sense of the complex narrative world of Lost, and how the fragmented mode of storytelling contributes to our pleasurable engagements with the show. (via Synchronizing Complexity | In Media Res)
