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runtime rated 18 months ago- The following elements are found in many magical realist works # Contains fantastical elements. # The fantastic elements may be intrinsically plausible but are never explained. # Characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical element. # Exhibits a richness of sensory details. # Uses symbols and imagery extensively. # Emotions and the sexuality of the human as a social construct are often developed in great detail. # Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent. Another technique is to collapse time in order to create a setting in which the present repeats or resembles the past. # Inverts cause and effect, for instance a character may suffer before a tragedy occurs. # Incorporates legend or folklore. # Presents events from multiple standpoints - ie. alternates detached with involved narrative voice; likewise, often shifts between characters' viewpoints and internal narration on shared relationships or memories. # Mirrors past against present; astral against physical planes; or characters one against another. # Open-ended conclusion leaves the reader to determine whether the magical and/or the mundane rendering of the plot is more truthful or in accord with the world as it is. # Owns differing properties of magic and realism at the same time, while incorporating the two together often seamlessly. "He was somehow able to shoot a pond or water pool as transparent as to allow us to see through to the very bottom. You know, if you do it in an ordinary way, you will for sure find the sky reflected on the water surface. I, too, wanted to shoot water as he did, in making an episode of the Village of Watermills in Dreams. Can you imagine what we did to achieve that? We set up huge cranes soaring to the sky to put up a huge black cloth to prevent the sky reflection on the water surface. Now the riverbed became visible... His expression of water element! it was unique, indeed. Watching this film always makes me want to return to Earth." The Lotus Sutra Translated into English by Burton Watson Chapter V: The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs
