Slowness is a Spectrum
From static (bottom) to lightspeed (top), the Slowness Spectrum, as perceived by the cinema audience and its reality. Unfortunately, the normal speed of current mainstream cinema (which Bordwell called "intensified continuity") is perceived as the average standard speed, emphasized by the mode of screen consumption on smartphones for instance. Thus Contemplative Cinema is lambasted for being too sluggish and nicknamed "Slow Cinema". Whereas, in fact, REAL LIFE has always been slow, and it's our normal daily-life speed. Cinema has created an accelerated speed through ellipsis of the editing (which cuts out all down time, and unecessary transitions). Now this accelerated time is perceived as the new normal, which turns everything in real life "slower than normal"... Speed is the new normality. Life is the new slow. But Contemplative Cinema has never been "slower" than normal, slower than real life, it merely copies real life, and just that. T