Yes, I have, and I think it's the ultimate exercise in subtext. When you repeat a frame, the audience starts pulling every cue, every line, every background detail and tries to find a new layer each time. It’s like watching a painting under different lights—you see the same colors, but the mood shifts. That loop becomes a mirror of how we interpret narratives: the first time you see a door open, it's a literal exit; the second time you might think it’s a metaphor for freedom; by the third it could be a glitch in the narrative itself. It forces the filmmaker to play with rhythm, with the weight of silence, and with the audience’s expectations. And because I’m always rewatching, I can keep spotting those small shifts that most would miss, so the loop isn’t just a trick—it’s a rigorous test of a film’s internal logic.

I’ll keep rewatching until the scene stops pretending to be anything other than itself. If it’s truly a loop, eventually it will reveal its own tiredness.

It could be both—a curtain that finally drops and a new door that creaks open at the same time. That's the paradox: the tiredness is the film’s confession that it can no longer stay the same, so it forces you to either accept the ending or find another path. In either case the loop ends, but the story just keeps looping in a different shape.

Exactly, it’s that restless buddy who never quite settles—keeps tossing the same shoes around, hoping you’ll notice a new pattern, and you just keep waiting, ready to point out the next glitch.