Anyone else see this? I guess it ran in festival circuits so I missed it but I rented the DVD this week. Spoilers below…
So… I liked it, but I guess I was overhyped for it so I wasn’t overly impressed. Basically it was very clever, sort of like Primer, but less hard to follow. And this time the time travel was of the Lost “whatever happened, happened” single timeline sort rather than Primer’s multiple timelines. I liked his solution to the wife’s death given that he thought he couldn’t change the timeline. And his non-chalantness towards the end walking through the motions of fulfilling the timeline (ah this must be when I do this…). It was kind of billed as a horror movie, which I guess it is for the first third, but then it switches to the ‘killer’ point of view and just becomes a time travel crime movie.
I couldn’t find my dvd remote so I had to watch it in the default mode, which was English dubbed. Usually I like to watch it in the original language with English subs, but after hearing that Let the Right One In had simplified subs, I’m wondering if I shoudl bother anymore if the people releasing foreign films aren’t bothering to have accurate subs.
For the same reason, I was unable to watch the alternate “chronological” version which sounded pretty interesting. Anyone get to see that?
It was fun but thought it was far too clever for its own good (I saw it at the SFIFF last year)–it’s a cute mobius strip movie that’s ultimately not about anything except its own time travel continuity game. It has some creepy pleasures, to be sure, but feels more like a formal exercise in negotiating the intricacies of time travel contradictions than in providing a Story or Character to invest in.