This is an amazing array of visualizations. I see time in a half oval, starting at January around to December. Then it starts again. No colours, but the weeks in rows. Sort of like a flat bell curse, but connecting one to the next one.

I like the movie more and more each time i see it. I suppose 10,000 years is a bit over much, but I do think that he must have been stuck for at least hundreds of years. Being who he was, selfish & vain, I just assume he played for a long time, screwed with people just because he could, with seeming no consequences. And as he goes through each stage, it takes him so long to process it. The same for trying to kill himself, he must have literally tried every single way to end it, over and over. There had to be a bit of time when he was just driven to insanity. To break a man and make him into a better person.