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\u201cTime, stop,\u201d commanded the architect played by Adam Driver in Megalopolis <\/i>(2024), and we still dream of stopping time, in cinema and in all art, to better capture moments, reconstruct them, or recreate them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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