The childhood crime that impossibly haunts the present, the lost future of Majid

The lost future of Hollywood success and the inability to accept it, past actions haunting the present

Mourning of a lost future that was never possible, the mourning of a lover that never was, and the psycho-sexual pursuit of turning a real person into a fictional one, the necrophilic act of trying to engage sensually with what is long dead

The secret that haunts the orphanage in spectre form, the lingering trauma of the spanish civil war haunting the future

The past haunting the present and cancelling the future, the obsession with returning at all cost

A WWII film that is set twenty years before the start of a war, making a spectre that looms over the entire film. The future horrific acts of the holocaust haunt every moment of this film, framing the events of the film as causation. The trauma endured by these children forever haunting their lives thereafter, and haunting the world through the horrific acts they will go on to commit as adults. The fractures that come from the inability to accept the loss of the old world and the European pastoral life