SHORT CUTS (1993)

Short Cuts is made up of ten different sets of characters from twelve Raymond Carver stories. They are linked to each other in various ways, and their stories continuously intersect. There is no way to write a readable linear synopsis of the plot without either breaking the film down into individual strands, which would not do any justice to the stories' accumulative power, or creating a lengthy, boring summary full of meanwhiles and by the ways. Hypertext offers an interesting solution to this problem. Individual lexia clarify the different characters' storylines, and links between the characters and events add the level of interaction onto the separate stories, which are also linked to fragments of the original texts on which they are based.