Movies: Time Travel

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My partner and I came across a movie the other night called 'I'LL Follow You Down'. It was a Canadian production with a simple plot, yet with time travel it is never so simple.

Without a spoiler for this, it involves a professor of physics who disappears from Princeton. Many years pass and his now grown up son starts to unravel, with the help of his professor Grandfather, what happened, why and can he correct it.

Think I should leave it at that as it has some interesting and human things to say - here is a trailer if more is required:

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zt5m7phZc

The characters are the X-files, Gillian Anderson, with Rufus Sewell, Victor Garber and Haley Joel Osment.
 
I just saw it tonight and I have to give it a big 2 thumbs up.

This is up there with Donnie Darko, in how that movie too had a simple everyday life plot that addressed time travel and how it would affect life.
 
Another recent (2014) time travel movie is "Predestination". It is an Australian made film, based on the science fiction short story "All You Zombies" by Robert Heinlein.

The synopsis of "All You Zombies" in the JPG below does contain plot spoilers, but I include it here because it really summarizes what is interesting about the film without necessarily having to watch it. The type may also be too small to read without actually clicking on the photo anyway.

(I came across this synopsis 4 days ago in browsing the book "Weird Science" by Michael White and posted the jpg on Facebook as an interesting example of a time travel paradox. Then by coincidence I happened to buy the film yesterday while in town, just because it was a time travel sci-fi movie that looked interesting (the cover blurb read "chronicles the life of a temporal agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys [etc.]", with illustrations of a man walking through a 1940s lobby) without even realizing until I later read about it on IMDB, before watching it, that it was based on the short story I had just been reading about 4 days earlier.

The second photo below is from the same book "Weird Science", and illustrates how some time travel "paradoxes" can be resolved with a parallel-worlds model (though not perhaps the paradoxes in "All You Zombies" / "Predestination").
 

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I also saw Predestination the other day. I imagine that the book was good as Heinlein is one of Sci-Fi's grand old men and I liked the story. However, I didn't much care for the way the story was told and the acting could've been better, IMHO.

But speaking about time travel movies I really enjoyed Primer which won the Sundance Award a number of years back. Very simple plot that really makes you think. I also enjoyed the film Loper, despite the fact that it was more of a mainstream production.
 
I watched 'I'll follow you down' last night at your recommendation. Definitely worth a watch, thanks for the suggestion.

I'll probably give Predestination a watch tonight.

I would also echo Thor's suggestion of Primer, great movie.
 
Subtitles really help when watching Primer.

This chart is worth a look after watching.

http://cdn.unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/primer-chart.jpg
 
I was looking for this movie on Netflix. Does somebody have a link? It's not on my Netflix. I ended up watching "Passenger" not bad. Two people stuck on a commercial interstellar transport wake up 90 years early out of hibernation, face various challenges together...
 
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