the blended present tense: a look into Abel Ferrara's THE BLACKOUT

A night of coke, followed by a few hits of rock, and then he looks into the mirror and  hears her say....
"It was a boy, Matty."

His reflection starts to retreat; engulfed in a blackness.

He can barely see himself,  and his obsessive obliteration of the senses can not stop the patterns of recognition.