#rom-dramz

In that respect, the movie marked a narrative angle that Linklater has repeatedly returned to: the personal historical present, a kind of Polaroid of the moment developed by a man farther along in time. We’re meant to be fully immersed in the world it portrays, but that world always exists relative to an offscreen future; we know where it leads, although the characters do not. “I was trying to make a pretty anti-nostalgic piece,” he says. “The view of that movie is that the times they’re living in suck.”