What if the past never decided on one ending?

A 1-minute surreal, time-fractured cinematic sequence set during the Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE, presented as a collapsing memory of history rather than a literal recreation. The camera moves like a sentient observer, phasing between time layers, gliding at impossible speeds just above the waterline of the narrow straits of Salamis. The sea behaves unnaturally — waves freeze mid-motion, then shatter into droplets that reverse and reassemble. Hundreds of Persian war galleys stretch endlessly across the horizon…