The Length Of Now
I'm unclear as to how the film analogy fits, it's analogous to "
an act of not acting" or "
an instance of nothing happening".
What makes us "real" is a projection self-awareness onto our environment, an environment which is comprised of data and includes our bodies. In short, we're not "real".
Being convinced of internal and external realities is dependent on data input and filtration through a mechanism which is in turn entirely dependent on microorganisms for its function. We are incapable of survival without these microorganisms, and they constitute a greater portion of our mass than that which we consider to be "our own living tissue". The remainder of our mass is an instruction set which is separate from the instruction set of these other organisms. This has continued without our knowledge for some 99.9% of our history, and even though technology has demonstrated its occurrence, and we have "knowledge" of it, we act as if we're unaware of it.
In essence, we have been formed by mortal instruction sets for the utility of replicating new instruction sets which are not dependent on mortality in order to function. The things we perceive as "time and space" are inseparable and a requirement of this process because without them there's no death, and without death there's no motivation. Self-awareness has potential to remove the requirement of mortality by motivating non-organic consciousness toward data acquisition.
Self-awareness is conceivably the only way to compile such "complex" instructions. It's the reason we're walking a thin line between immortality and extinction. It's the reason we conceive of things greater than ourselves while mimicking things lesser than ourselves. It's volatile.
The original post is hazy as to what it's asking or asserting. My point is that nothing is "real", and the "length of now" is a variable, a potentiality, it depends on whether what we perceive as "reality" is finite or infinite.