We have really an objectivation of our memory function.

The case of the cut-back is there quite parallel to that of the close-up.

In the one we recognize the mental act of attending, in the other we must recognize the mental act of remembering.

_In both cases the act which in the ordinary theater would go on in our mind alone is here in the photoplay projected into the pictures themselves.
It is as if reality has lost its own continuous connection and become shaped by the demands of our soul._ It is as if the outer world itself became molded in accordance with our fleeting turns of attention or with our passing memory ideas.
It is only another version of the same principle when the course of events is interrupted by forward glances.

The mental function involved is that of expectation or, when the expectation is controlled by our feelings, we may class it under the mental function of imagination.