Bring debates about experimentalism and post modernism - is there a difference?
No meta narrative - no real binary oppositions or themes, just there to look at. Not put behind anyone or anything - could represent that life is unpredictable and without metanarrative
Non-linearity - the way it uses it, makes us confused as we think we're behind someone and then they die or we switch to another time. Once Vincent is gone we don't really latch onto anything else, possibly Butch but that's up for debate. The non-linearity actually impacts our ability to relate to him even though we know the most about his backstory and life. We first see him in opposition to Vincent, which puts us immediately against him. Butch doesn't have a 'cool' stylized monologue, even his girlfriend does. Makes him look boring, uninteresting in comparison to others.
Auteur traits come into play - dialogue not used to move forward - either to develop character or to look cool.
Debates about experimentalism could be that, as different experimental films came out the same year (Natural Born Killers), there is a movement of post modernism instead of individual experimentalism. Also Breathless by Jean-Luc Goddard came before
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