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Written by: Nacho Vigalondo
Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga
Rated: R
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Plot
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Verdict
This is a budget movie that can't rely on special effects and CGI. Due to that the focus is squarely on the story, and this story does such a great job of folding over itself as Hector gets caught in a time loop. He desperately tries to right things while getting ever deeper into his complicated plight. A great pace as this slowly reveals that nothing that's happened to Hector is quite as random as it first seems.
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Review
I'll watch nearly anything time travel. I saw this a long while ago, forgetting it was subtitled. I just remember what a cool story it had.
This is certainly a budget movie and a bit raw, but the story is solid. When a movie has that kind of foundation, you don't need special effects to cover the cracks. The fact this lacks a big budget probably helped it as the writer/director had to focus on the plot.
This begins with Héctor (Karra Elejalde) enjoying sitting in his yard after getting home from shopping. It has to be a bit of foreshadowing that the hatch of his car opened and spilled its contents as he arrived home. Héctor is hapless, unlucky, or both.
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| Karra Elejalde plays Hécto |
He's soon fleeing an unknown assailant. He's on the run for the rest of the movie, either trying to get away or catch up. This is time travel, and it does such a good job of looping this story. Héctor is fleeing from and chasing himself, though at first he doesn't realize it. While it seems quite a coincidence that there's a scientist working on a time machine close by, there's no other way to get into this story.
The scientist wants to preserve the timeline, but we soon realize the scientist is being coerced. Héctor's goal is to return things to normal, and that means ensuring his past self gets in the time machine so that there's only one Héctor. He knows what to do because he's already seen it. Héctor certainly does some heinous things, but for him it's a matter of life and death. He's trying to 'get back.' That doesn't excuse anything he does. His plan to 'fix it' keeps getting more complicated. Everything folds on itself as he continues trying to fix the situation.
For a budget movie this does a lot, and the script is the main reason. All the pieces fit together so well
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