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The film is an organic consolidation of the following formal elements:
- flashback structure, except the film runs two flashback narratives in parallel, for protagonist and antagonist, linking the structure with its portrayal of the two characters as doubles of each other (which also mirrors The Searchers)
- neorealist tradition of shooting on location on meagre budget and using non-professional actors
- radically anti-real montage that bluntly and clearly confronts standards of continuity and presents an alternative, more abstract and, oddly, more sincere way of accessing the film's content