In case you were wondering, I don’t have much of a life among those of you in the wider world. I have and do spend a lot of time alone and I watch a large number of movies, easily more than 50 every month.
Way back, when times were more generous, I saw every movie that was shown in Tulsa theaters that didn’t seem useless (or have a lot of crying, or gay vampires — the sorts of movies where chick-BFF’s come out hugging).
Oh wait, I think I saw The Notebook. I might have been married at the time. Ok, it was good.
ANYWAY
I thought I had seen every movie made in the last 20 years about time travel, but I just found a new one.
See this movie: 11 Minutes Ago
http://www.11minutesagothemovie.com/
11 Minutes Ago has no special effects, no killer androids, no Jean-Claude Van Damme. This movie is low budget, shot all in the same house (in one 17-hour filming session), and is easily the best movie about time travel I’ve ever seen — and it doesn’t discuss any of the mechanics of the technology.
This guy “tumbles” 48 years into the past to get an air sample because the air had become polluted in his time.
Wait, it’s not a green, tree hugging movie — it’s a love story where cause and effect are all messed around, but it makes perfect sense in the end.
See, the guy can only stay for 11 minutes at a time or he’ll have to stay forever (he’ll never make it back with his air sample). But this woman is lovey-dovey with him and he’s just shocked, and curious, and interested… And the guys at the party are talking to him like they know him because he’s already been there a number of times and he’s been talking to them all night about the truth.
SO, he has to come back to see how this all came about and to see the woman again. He goes home and spends 6 months preparing another trip… and eventually arrives for his second visit, 15 minutes before he arrived the first time.
It’s really, really cool. See 11 Minutes Ago.
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