petrification

And they have often succumbed, in the process, to a strange kind of petrification.

Thousands of years pass, and after nearly all remnants of modern civilization have been reclaimed by nature, Japanese high school student Taiju manages to break free from the petrification.

“With the petrification of a new normal involving tariffs and protectionism,” he said, “that’s the definition of the end of the world order.”

“I saw hearts beating and shaking hands and - petrification - would that be a word? Guys so scared. And I saw exhilaration and I saw more smiles - I never knew smiles could stay on that long.”

Yet the canonization of so-called experimental films in universities is precisely the reason both for these films’ endurance and for their petrification.