Four O'Clock

"Yet what is astonishing is that when I watch the film again, I tremble again: I take on the character's anticipation, putting myself 'in his skin.' The protentional effect is not eliminated by the fact that the anticipation has already been dissipated – I know what is (not) going to happen." Stiegler points to cinema's remarkable ability to re-conjure emotion even when it has become very familiar, but perhaps he is also telling us about his own feelings about his own countdown to extinction.