"This Looks Familiar"... - Coming Full Circle..

In almost every film that involves the use of a map, there always seems to be a moment when one character looks around, stops the group and exclaims, “Wait… I recognise this.” It’s often a tree or a bend in the path, or some feature that painfully drags out the conclusion that everyone has just completed a giant, waste-of-timey circle.

There is no sense of metaphor or philosophy here. It is entirely literal. How did we end up back here?

It is generally framed as a cross between a plot hiccup and a kind of abject failure - a wrong turn; a wasted effort; time lost that you will never get back. It is a situation filled with “if onlys” and more than a little judgement from us, way up in the movie theatre peanut gallery.

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