According to Fredric Jameson, nostalgic movies create a new past and convey a "pastness" that has nothing to do with history by a unhistorical collage of images about the past.

根据詹姆逊的看法，怀旧电影借助非历史地拼凑各种有关过去的形象，创造出一种新的过去，传达一种非关历史的“过去性”。

The distinction between pastness or futureness and “the” past or “the” future is graphically illustrated by imagining a movie of, say, the egg being dropped on the floor and breaking.

过去或未来的状态与「这个过去」或「那个未来」的区别可以用图像说明：想像有一段影片，里面录制了蛋掉到地上而破碎的过程。