![]() ![]() As Hart put it, ‘life just slips through your fingers’ and, offering a simple take on his partner’s temporal philosophy, noted that ‘the future is behind you, like it’s always been behind you’. ![]() Whatever its ultimate fate, time feels linear as we experience it. Time then sped up in the passage of years that took us from the purported solving of the Dora Lange case to the moment that it all came rushing back and at which we know, thanks again to the odd time signature, that Hart and Cohle will make their final falling out. It runs slowly too, in the slow motion unloading of the AK-47 alibi and in the steady, unsettling creep that the two detectives made to their booby-trapped destination and the equally uncertain slow motion trek back, carrying a child, a corpse and a lie. In his silent killing of Ledoux, Hart presented us with the punishment before we’d seen confirmation of the crime. And why? Because it had already happened. We were trapped in a nightmare, knowing that something awful was happening but powerless to stop it. Their calm, dispassionate retelling of the story had all the hallmarks of a lie agreed upon and we knew that something untoward was happening, even before it did. We knew, for example, that the raid on Reggie’s redoubt was not going to go down the way that Hart and Cohle described it and found out even as we saw the ‘truth’, or possible truth play out. ![]()
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