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   Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 15:51:42 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

   I watched a really enjoyable #Japanese movie called Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

   It's basically about a guy who discovers a two minute lag between two laptop webcams, and very quickly discovers he can have conversations with himself, with his future self revealing things about the future 2 minutes ahead.

   It's called a #ScieneFiction comedy, but really it's just a playful take on time travel. The characters take this simple premise then expand upon it, taking the two minute future/past scenario further, with pleasing results.

   Strangely, many of the scenes are replayed from a different perspective but they don't feel repetitive or become tiresome. Pretty much everything is foreshadowed as well, so the sense of peril is diminished, but it's still very enjoyable and somehow it doesn't matter.

   What drives the film forward is how it takes you through the time travel logic. It's complex but not difficult to follow. It all seems carefully thought out and you could sit and carefully work it all out in your head (I didn't) but it's playful enough to make you think you don't need to scrutinise it too much.

   And it's all set in one location in a shop/office building. It's all neat, simple and contained, and it's contained within 70 mins.

   It's a good film.

   #JapaneseCinema #Movies #Films #Scifi

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     Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 15:52:40 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

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     It is definitely one of my favourite #TimeTravel movies

     It being contained in a small location keeps it enjoyable and stops it getting too messy. And I think this is partly because it's a Japanese film.

     If it was made in the West, I imagine it going into something much bigger, somehow leaking out from the location, with the film makers probably trying to make some deep, mind-bending loop ending.

     This movie is entirely unpretentious but very, very clever.

     #Movies #TimeTravelMovies