It s not an easy job.
Characters fade in and out of focus.
Trivialities take on great importance while more pressing matters recede inexplicably into the background. To spend two and a half hours inside this man s head can feel like a prison sentence. His strategy is, in fact, the reverse. He recreates De Winter s state of mind with such intensity that we get disoriented. It all builds up to the final shot, which reveals everything and nothing, and which asks us to reconsider what we ve just witnessed.