This is a rather clever little film.
It starts out in a very routine, almost boringly familiar sort of way, like one of those all too common documentaries overflowing the History Channel.
Only it very quickly subverts the form and uses the documentary format to tell a story you couldn’t tell any other way.
Mind you, it does so in a clever and sneaky way, as our routine documentary…changes as the story progresses and becomes more complex.
It comes with a lot of clever tricks on the audience and references to some of the classics of the field (keep an eye out for a familiar center console).
And we all know what movie they’re riffing on when someone notes, “They made a time machine…out of an Atari.”
Yeah, it’s not for everyone, and the deliberately ordinary and slow opening will probably chase away the more thrill-obsessed viewers.
But for those of you who like your Science Fiction clever, witty, and intelligent, it is definitely worth a view.
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