Violation of Time | Review of: Presence (2024) (Blog 165)

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(4/10/2025) What if time travel wasn’t the ability to rewrite history—but the horrifying realization that you were only ever fulfilling it? In this essay, I explore the concept of chronology violation—when time unravels, either by accident or design—and how the 2024 film Presence quietly redefines the mechanics of causality through a ghost story. This isn't about déjà vu. It's about the universe having no rewind button. It's about causality as a prison, not a pathway to enlightenment.

Presence dares to imagine a loophole—not for changing time, but for witnessing it from within, as a point of awareness. The most terrifying thing in the universe may not be death—it’s that everything already happened and you’re trapped in it. Angels to some, demons to others. The Universe’s cruel way of potty-training the human condition. Take a ‘sort of’ horror movie and discuss the philosophy of time travel to the past. How existential…

Violation of Time | Review of: Presence (2024) (Blog 165) — https://mineofilms.me/violation-of-time-2/
by David-Angelo Mineo
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