This is a short movie, slightly over an hour, that is fiction presented as a documentary.
It is, frankly, quite brilliant.
It is one of those movies you’re either going to love for what it does, or hate and think it’s nonsense. As a writer, I would rather have someone hate my book than not care about it. Because, like a relationship, you want to evoke strong emotion, not apathy. I’ve written a Time Patrol series so I understand the travails of trying to delve into this subject. My take was that a Time Patrol’s primary mission is to keep our history exactly as it was, for a very simple reason: as flawed as things are, we’re still here.
It starts off exactly as what it says: a documentary about the history of time travel. It does a good job having an expert quickly discussing the various theories of time travel and the paradoxes. Then on to a study of the key man who invented. We learn about his wife and his family. All of this is done through interviews with experts and a family friend.
You have to watch carefully, though as the documentary unfolds and things start to change. I love when the medium of the story actually is the story. That’s the case here. The documentary form never changes but the story does.
I don’t want to give away too much. I highly recommend it as a film that will get you thinking. In a way it challenges the very fundamental concept of time travel.
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