Im writing a paper for my English class on how various authors and filmmakers approach the theory of the eternal moment that people experience before they die , since time is subjective to everyone, the theory is that before you die you experience a very slow drawn out moment that is similiar to your "life flashing before your eyes" , how can I relate this movie to a more contemporary one like Jacob's Ladder
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/caw43/bierce/journal1habibi.htm#foot1
"THE MAGIC MOMENT:
THE LIMINAL, DISTENDED TIME FLASHFORWARD OF AMBROSE BIERCE
I. The Liminal, Distended Time Flashforward
IN "AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE" (1890), Ambrose Bierce introduces a narrative device that has proven to be a major influence among prominent writers and filmmakers. Elsewhere, I have expounded on what I have termed “the liminal, distended time flashforward.” [1] The device occurs in a liminal setting; that is, it happens at the intense sensory threshold between life and death."
Also, this is only just kind of tangential, but you could mention the concept of being in limbo, half-alive, half-dead. Characters in limbo will often spend a whole lot of time there before going one way or the other, and if they come back to life almost no time will have passed since their "departure." By limbo, of course, I mean the broader sense of it, not Limbo as in the outer edges of Paradise. Or if you wanted to talk about the subjectivity of time without death being involved, there's two things I can think of: fantasy examples where time passes slower or faster in one world/realm than another, i.e. Chronicles of Narnia, and the pop conception of black holes and other phenomena that makes time in one area pass slower or faster than another. With a black hole it's called the event horizon, the exact point where once you're in, you're not getting out; in a way the idea of Narnia+our world is a very simplistic idea of that, with the back of the closet being the event horizon, sans the being ripped into subatomic components.
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