Single Digests v. Multiple Digests

"In Hollywood films, everything shown belongs to the same world, and complex articulations within that world-such as flashbacks--are carefully signalled and located."(77)

Time and space in cinema must follow a consistent order. It must be coherent and integrated, yet it does not need to observe compulsory, statutory constraints. (77) It's very interesting the only multiple digesis that is allowed is a "play within a play."

Take Week End for example, although you are wondering why there are so many crushed cars and dead people in the roads, you can still understand the story because of the timeline it follows. You can still understand that the couple is going on a trip to her mother's house to secure an inheritance, and that that does not end too well. You may not understand why certain things are happening because you are not informed of the political aspects, but even the times when the fictional bizzare characters appear, their stories are interlocked with the main story.

Thanks to this instead of saying "WTF?", you simply end up saying "No idea what that was for".