The torture scene contains a layer of symbolism that’s easy to overlook.
The Protagonist, immobilized on a railway track in a barren industrial
landscape, resembles a single point on a line drawn across an empty plane. Around him, freight trains move in both
directions, which worsens his disorientation. This constant forward and
backward movement looks like the physical embodiment of a time-reversible
equation. In physics, many fundamental laws work equally well whether time
flows forward or backward. The trains visually echo this symmetry: they are a
hint that the arrow of time is not absolute.
The yellow clock on the battered table reinforces this. Its square shape
and its placement in the scene evoke the Sator Square, with its associations of
symmetry, recursion, and reversible structure. One can find a wealth of
interpretations in encyclopedias.
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