“The past is just a memory that keeps changing with our present experience. The past is a projection, and it’s untrustworthy. Those memories are no more truthful than our projections of what will happen in the future. We’re all just present—but the paradox is that we’re rarely in the present, because we’re thinking about what’s happened or bound to happen. That’s our downfall. If used to its full potential, in terms of being geographically and temporally fluid, cinema allows us…