Things Will Be Different

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Good movie!

Good movie!

The basic concept is pretty good. A couple of criminals, brother and sister with some weird family issues, steal money and hide out in a safe house that also takes them back in time to avoid capture. I'm sold on the story line. But it falls apart pretty quickly after that. The actors were decent but since the story is poorly written and laid out, they don't get to stand out. The characters are actions are just not well written. Why would a screen written have a character hide a weapon 50 yards away from where they would.be most of the time, out in the open.with absolutely no cover from.someone shooting at them? Another character doesn't speak, and when asked why, they write, "it would take to long to explain". Why even bring it up in the storyline? It went nowhere! Too much of this movie.was left unanswered or poorly explained to make it feel entertaining. The final parts seemed like a lot of loose peices.just got thrown in together. But instead of leaving room for interpretation. It just comes across as messy and rushed. I want my time back after having watched this.

I give it 6 stars because although it kind of comes together in the end, the plot is very intriguing. It keeps you guessing and forming your opinions heavily throughout the film. It had a feel like the movie "The Endless" where the characters are stuck in this loop only it was a bit harder to understand. What the endless had that this movie doesn't have is an ending that sufficed although it couldn't really be explained. This movie had me staring at the screen for a minute after it went off still trying to figure out the hows and whys. I liked the acting very much. All in all it's a good movie with subpar explanations. In the end they tied it together but again with no clear explanation to how "the enemy" even got there or who that person was looking for.

Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy, Christmas Bloody Christmas) are brother and sister who have barely escaped a robbery. To escape arrest, they head to an abandoned farm that just so happens to be a place where multiple timelines all intersect and end up being part of an experiment. They are told that unless they follow a set of instructions, they can never leave. Directed and written by Michael Felker, who edited Synchronic and Something In the Dirt, Joseph thinks that he has it all figured out, as they can hide in another dimension for a few weeks, unable to be found until the cops forget all about the robbery. This was produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who made the aforementioned Something In the Dirt, and like many of their movies, this has many twists and turns, becoming almost unpredictable. Joseph and Sidney are told that to escape, they have to kill someone who is also in this time. They have no idea who it is, when they are coming and what they have to do. Sidney has a daughter that she never wants to abandon and Joseph has already cost her two weeks. This is not a simple movie to understand at points but it all comes together. It feels like the leads could have been in several films as these characters, as they are so well lived.

Acting: As the only 2 people in the entire film, the capability of the actors is very important. The brother was good. He was able to show the weight of the plot in a way that was adding to the story. It mattered to him. The sister was not there, I don't think she was really present, I could see her acting. And the tough persona was not palpable or natural to her and felt like she was aware she was in a film. It seemed like she was doing acting like a homework assignment and the director is what mattered to her, not the plot. The relationship between the brother and sister was oddly formal and respectful which made me wonder if the director knows this creates undesirable conditions and tension. The formality and niceness made see them as friends or neighbors or just not as family.. They should have been meaner and sloppier with each other, more down to earth and ugly, not just saying all the right things. The inherent imperfection of a sibling relationship wasn't there. There was no sense of self or history within this relationship, they only existed for the scenes. I realize it's a plot story not a character story, but this relationship carries all the stakes of the entire film. The film The Savages would have been a good place to begin research into developing the proper sibling dynamic and tone since it's the only 2 people carrying the entire film. Writing & Direction The script seemed like a first or second draft. There's just no meat on the bones. It's a poor man's Black Mirror episode. High concept with all kinds of lofty theoretical ideas but with none of the math to back it up. There's no heart aka no emotional investment other than the melodrama of the bad guys coming and a criminally underdeveloped idea of a multi verse. The writer needs to READ some of the great sci fi texts and books in history, I'm sure he's watched all the iconic films, but that's what happens when you give film buffs money-they are just trying to be like the other films rather than authoring their own world and rules and senses. Cinematically, a unique and interesting way to have approached this text would have been in the style of Leave The World Behind where the DP and director matched the shots and sound design with the oblique story. Or The OA, where the plot is multiverse but still congruent and tight, and not hiding its lazy underdeveloped hand by blaming interpretation. Sure there's validity in open interpretation endings, but this was inverse, everything was open ended the was no bible to this world. There is little reverence given to the plot itself and seems like they just threw spaghetti and the wall and saw what stuck and kept it. There's no rhyme or reason and at the end of the day, nothing to say. No vision. I don't need it to be allegorical or have metaphysical philosophical significance, but these are things you think about before writing a multiverse time travel movie. And if you don't, then you end up empty convolutions without a book of god and also, what a missed opportunity.

No pun intended - and judging from what we heard from the director (who likes talking about movies with his dad, well Science Fiction movies, he also likes to get input from his mom, good for him and them by the way) ... I think he would like my summary headline. All that aside, this is quite the heavy movie ... head wise that is. It might mess you up - who is who and why do they act the way they do? I think I figured a lot out, but even so, the end of the line is not reached ... or cannot be seen in the movie. We do not need to see it of course - well I would argue we don't. You may feel a bit cheated by the movie - and might want more (or any for that matter) answers ... well done then and the acting is amazing. I think that should be enough to make you think about if this is for you or not - let's end this then ... (yes I just did that)