DE Weekly: Demy, Love, & The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

In Existentialism, the past, present, and future are always in focus. Much of what the existentialist authors wrote about these three states of time emphasized their role in determining how our lives will turn out.

The past acts as the “givenness” of our life: a fixed period of time that has come and gone and that we cannot change. In this way, it is devoid of choices; there is nothing more we can do with the past.