Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 7, 2021 15:55:12 GMT
Christopher Nolan does for time what he did for sleep with Inception.
Instead of standard time travel, though, where someone goes back in time and joins the timeline at that point, what we have here is people and things 'inverting', that is they stay in the current timeline but start to move backwards along the timeline. Where that leads us is to having two versions of a person, one moving forwards and one backwards, with the same scenes played out from different perspectives where people could literally appear to be moving backwards (depending on which direction you, the viewer is moving).
Key to this, but we never find out why, is that you must never meet yourself, so the version of a person in one direction in the timeline may not be aware that another version of them is also in the scene and is hiding from them while influencing the scene.
Needless to say, you really have to be paying attention to know which version of a person you are with at any time, where they are in the timeline and which direction they are moving in.
Not only that, but it's also heavily dialogue driven, so you really, really need to pay attention.
It's definitely interesting, that's for sure, but some of it is a bit of excessive academic wank. I seem to remember this being billed as some huge movie event, "this will change everything" kind of stuff. It's not, it's James Bond with time travel, nothing more really.
6.5/10.
Instead of standard time travel, though, where someone goes back in time and joins the timeline at that point, what we have here is people and things 'inverting', that is they stay in the current timeline but start to move backwards along the timeline. Where that leads us is to having two versions of a person, one moving forwards and one backwards, with the same scenes played out from different perspectives where people could literally appear to be moving backwards (depending on which direction you, the viewer is moving).
Key to this, but we never find out why, is that you must never meet yourself, so the version of a person in one direction in the timeline may not be aware that another version of them is also in the scene and is hiding from them while influencing the scene.
Needless to say, you really have to be paying attention to know which version of a person you are with at any time, where they are in the timeline and which direction they are moving in.
Not only that, but it's also heavily dialogue driven, so you really, really need to pay attention.
It's definitely interesting, that's for sure, but some of it is a bit of excessive academic wank. I seem to remember this being billed as some huge movie event, "this will change everything" kind of stuff. It's not, it's James Bond with time travel, nothing more really.
6.5/10.