Christopher Smith pulled off this temporal knot through razor-sharp blocking and rigorous editing discipline. Setting the loop aboard an abandoned 1930s ocean liner gave editor Stuart Gazzard endless physical corridors and brass fixtures to anchor spatial continuity. Every gunshot, bloodstain, and dropped locket lands with brutal mechanical precision. You do not need computational pixel tricks when you understand the geography of a practical set and know exactly how to splice two film strips together.
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