Snip / cut

Working with noise film after being away from it for seven months has been good. I'm finally able to stand back a bit and get some distance on the project. As I snip and cut I'm wondering how important it is to include the perpetual motion idea. I'm thinking that it's maybe too confusing and detracts from the story which, when you think about it, is not about perpetual motion at all. Ben just has to be inventing something—anything. So I'm inclined to excise the perpetual motion stuff. Still, I need to reread my original drafts. A lot of the time, I take things out only to realize later that they had an important reason to be there in the first place.