Viraj's Weblog

I'm a fan of Primer, so this new movie about time travel intrigued me. It's another low budget flick. Turns out it was only playing in San Jose, so I decided to take the 30-mile bike ride (15 miles each way) to check it out.

First a word about my bike ride. I took this route and going there in the daytime was an enjoyable ride. Biking back on a Saturday night was not fun at all. I think I almost got killed twice. Both times were oncoming cars making left turns and not seeing me coming. I've noticed that drivers around here are getting worse, and today I need to buy a brighter light. As a biker, I'm also used to the standard yelling out of windows. One passenger tried to scare me by yelling "Boom!" like a gunshot as they passed me. Heh, maybe I should start carrying a gun with me?

Anyway, about the movie. It was pretty fun and dealt with the common doppelganger theme. These movies are funny because they try to portray recursion dramatically. I'm always interested in how they do it and whether it actually makes sense visually. Luckily this only recursed a few levels deep and was intriguing to follow. It's dubbed as a horror/sci-fi, and there are some scenes of blood, but not much. It's a case where a man finds a time machine. But he could not have found the time machine if he had not been led to it by a double that found it and went back in time. Repeat.

For a low budget film, it was nicely done. It's one of those films where things happen that don't make much sense. However, after some iterations, it does.