"Time Travel"

Marquise 2022-12-23 10:42:12

There are no dazzling sci-fi scenes, and there are no complicated relationships between characters. There are only seven people in a movie, but it is full of intriguing time logic. The three protagonists with distinct personalities find that there is a time camera across from their shared house that can take photos of the future. The camera is always facing their room, and at a fixed time every day, the photos of the same time the next day are printed out. The death of the camera maker has led them to believe that changing the future will lead to death if not done as the picture shows. Fear of death, as well as human nature's own greed, jealousy, and profit-seeking, lock their actions and the future of photo shooting firmly.





The highlight of the film is that, through the carrier of the time camera, the protagonists in the film not only realize their selfish desires, but also magnify their own evils of human nature. Those who like petty gambling are addicted to gambling in the end, those who are jealous are the last to kill people, those who chase small profits are killed because of it, no matter how unreasonable the photos printed by the camera are, because of fear, because of human nature, they are always wrong. It caused the picture taken by the camera until... The ending was very dramatic, but it was hinted at earlier, so I won't spoil it here. Now that all kinds of money-burning blockbusters are dizzying, this "Time Lapse" with a little freshness and brain-burning logic is really refreshing.





After watching this movie, I naturally think of another classic space-time prediction masterpiece "Minority Report". Even if this movie starring Tom Tom in 2002 is still available today, its sci-fi flavor is not out of date. Tom, who is the director of the crime prevention organization, saw in a prediction that he would be suspected of committing crimes in the future, and thus launched a human game between truth and truth, correctness and justice.

The feast of logic and the joy of thought are the indescribable enjoyment that these films bring to me, and most importantly, they make us think: Is the world we live in now, and the technology we use, also bred With this terrible. They inspire us to guard against: there is no absolute right or wrong in this world, there are only situations that each cannot escape, and everyone's limited choices.

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Time Lapse quotes

  • Callie: [reading from Bezzerides' journal] I know the rule of time and causality is that one should not attempt to change the future. But under these circumstances, it seems to be a risk worth taking. If I believed in God, I would pray today that no greater harm will come from what I am about to do.

  • Jasper: Don't fuck with time.