An Angel at my Table and The Sweet Hereafter: a Difference in Time The two movies An Angel at my Table and The Sweet Hereafter tell stories about the trials of being human. They both show the viewer a world that they with any luck do not have first hand knowledge. Though they both talk of the human condition, they do so by using stylistic differences that in their own right pull the viewer into …showed first 75 words of 922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 922 total…s story because they have seen it from the very beginning. Egoyan and Campion manipulate time to draw the audience into their stories. While Egoyan floats through time as if it is water going back and forth up and down at will. Campion, on the other hand, uses time like a conveyer belt; it is fixed and can only move in one direction. They both use time to draw the audience into their respective stories.