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Fascinating Independant Film: Time Travel Movie On You-Tube

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Called 41.

Watching it as I type.

A student goes to a Motel room and enters a hole in the floor. When he emerges it's Yesterday.

  • Profile picture of the author Hightorn
    Going to watch this in the weekend, Is it a good movie ?
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Hightorn View Post

      Going to watch this in the weekend, Is it a good movie ?
      Yes, highly enjoyable.

      PS. If you want big special effects etc this is not for you. The time paradoxes are explored highly effectively without them.
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    I remember (sort of) that once I went to a motel, ended up laying on the floor and when I awoke it was tomorrow. Does that count as time travel?

    Seriously I think time travel is a fascinating topic and love books and movies based onit. I will watch this!
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  • Profile picture of the author positivenegative
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    A student goes to a Motel room and enters a hole in the floor. When he emerges it's Yesterday.



    Never mind the time travel, I'd sue them for injuries . . and damages - an extra day with the wife is so not what I want.
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    Don't forget to watch Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel. It is a movie on Time Traveling released on 2009. I loved this movie and hope you'll like it too.
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    Bookmarked for Saturday morning. Cheers!

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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      I just watched the movie. it was beautifully done. Perfect music selections, solid acting, and an incredibly well thought out story.

      Thank you Mark, for sharing it with us.

      And one of the professors being named Wells, was a nice touch. Someone spent an awful lot of work, thinking this story through.
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        I just watched the movie. it was beautifully done. Perfect music selections, solid acting, and an incredibly well thought out story.

        Thank you Mark, for sharing it with us.

        And one of the professors being named Wells, was a nice touch. Someone spent an awful lot of work, thinking this story through.
        Glad you liked it. Just goes to show how having a micro budget for a film is irrelevant if the script, story and acting are good.
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          I watched it the other day myself. Claudes comment summed it up nicely. The ending was great.
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          • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
            Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

            I watched it the other day myself. Claudes comment summed it up nicely. The ending was great.
            Yeah. I shed a tear toward the end...and again at the very end The story really pulls you along with it.
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    So he went a few decades back in time to save his grandfather from drowning and by the time he got back, naturally, by living one day at a time, he was an old man running the motel. He basically wasted his life stuck in the past for a very long time. What for?

    So the hole in the bathroom was basically a xerox machine which made a clone of that guy. At the end of the movie there were the guy himself and his aged copy existing side by side. Which copy retained the original consciousness? Both? I wonder how the old man felt knowing that he wasted his life so that his clone can be happy with that girl? Remember how Arnold felt in "The 6th Day" when he found out he was just a clone.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by HN View Post

      So he went a few decades back in time to save his grandfather from drowning and by the time he got back, naturally, by living one day at a time, he was an old man running the motel. He basically wasted his life stuck in the past for a very long time. What for?

      So the hole in the bathroom was basically a xerox machine which made a clone of that guy. At the end of the movie there were the guy himself and his aged copy existing side by side. Which copy retained the original consciousness? Both? I wonder how the old man felt knowing that he wasted his life so that his clone can be happy with that girl? Remember how Arnold felt in "The 6th Day" when he found out he was just a clone.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by HN View Post

      So he went a few decades back in time to save his grandfather from drowning and by the time he got back, naturally, by living one day at a time, he was an old man running the motel. He basically wasted his life stuck in the past for a very long time. What for?

      So the hole in the bathroom was basically a xerox machine which made a clone of that guy. At the end of the movie there were the guy himself and his aged copy existing side by side. Which copy retained the original consciousness? Both? I wonder how the old man felt knowing that he wasted his life so that his clone can be happy with that girl? Remember how Arnold felt in "The 6th Day" when he found out he was just a clone.
      They weren't copies. They were the same person at different points in time. They were both fully conscious. The old man experienced all versions of himself, so it's one consciousness, at different periods.

      He didn't waste his life. He saved lives. It was a beautiful story. Not for the simple minded.
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        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        They weren't copies. They were the same person at different points in time. They were both fully conscious. The old man experienced all versions of himself, so it's one consciousness, at different periods.

        He didn't waste his life. He saved lives. It was a beautiful story. Not for the simple minded.
        What about the young version of the guy who walked the girl home at the end? Is he going to experience everything that the old man experienced? If not, how do they have the same consciousness? If they don't share the consciousness, how are they the same person? Never mind, too difficult question for the simple minded.
        Or is the younger self going to stop existing because he went back in time and it's just the old man who sees the next day after the accident?

        Never questioned the beauty of the film. Even though there were no clues as to why those particular two or three lives were important to use the time machine and mess up the time continuum. Perhaps their child will become a mass murderer. He saved lives. How cute.
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          Originally Posted by HN View Post

          What about the young version of the guy who walked the girl home at the end? Is he going to experience everything that the old man experienced? If not, how do they have the same consciousness? .
          The question is interesting .

          By going back in time, an alternative time line is created. The young guy isn't going to experience what the old version has experienced. But they are the same person. And up until the time the young guy went into the floor, they had the same experience.

          it was an exceptionally well thought out time travel movie. Maybe the best one I've seen as far as the logic of it. My only question was, what happened to the body of the girl he took into the hole in the floor?

          All of your questions were actually answered in the discussion at the table with the other professors, and in a diagram the main character used to go back far enough to change the time stream.
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            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            The question is interesting enough to answer.

            By going back in time, an alternative time line is created. The young guy isn't going to experience what the old version has experienced. But they are the same person. And up until the time the young guy went into the floor, they had the same experience.

            it was an exceptionally well thought out time travel movie. Maybe the best one I've seen as far as the logic of it. My only question was, what happened to the body of the girl he took into the hole in the floor?

            All of your questions were actually answered in the discussion at the table with the other professors, and in a diagram the main character used to go back far enough to change the time stream.
            Actually there was't anything new in this movie. Back to the Future 2, The Groundhog Day (sort of), the original Time Machine story.

            Did he create each new line, or did they all already coexist and he simply changed "channels". Suppose there is the movie with 7 different endings broadcast on 7 different channels. You pick the channel that you like most, where the hero saves lives, but all the other versions are a disaster, even if you never get a chance to find this out, because you only watch the channel that you are tuned onto. So you create 6 time lines which are completely messed up, people die, you go to jail, and the other YOU in every one of those is going to suffer, being fully conscious but unaware of other timelines. But since you switched the channels and are unaware of what happens in other timelines you feel happy and think you did the right thing? Even though you created 6 really screwed up timelines as the side effect.

            Listened again to what professors said at the table. "So he can't change his owl line, he has to influence the line of his other version"
            OK, he tried to do it a couple times, screwed up. Succeeded once. Cute. Everyone happy. What about the screwed up timelines. Do they just disappear with all the mess? Will the different lines merge and continue as one line, the one that he "fixed".
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            • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
              Originally Posted by HN View Post

              Actually there was't anything new in this movie. Back to the Future 2, The Groundhog Day (sort of), the original Time Machine story.

              Did he create each new line, or did they all already coexist and he simply changed "channels". Suppose there is the movie with 7 different endings broadcast on 7 different channels. You pick the channel that you like most, where the hero saves lives, but all the other versions are a disaster, even if you never get a chance to find this out, because you only watch the channel that you are tuned onto. So you create 6 time lines which are completely messed up, people die, you go to jail, and the other YOU in every one of those is going to suffer, being fully conscious but unaware of other timelines. But since you switched the channels and are unaware of what happens in other timelines you feel happy and think you did the right thing? Even though you created 6 really screwed up timelines as the side effect.

              Listened again to what professors said at the table. "So he can't change his owl line, he has to influence the line of his other version"
              OK, he tried to do it a couple times, screwed up. Succeeded once. Cute. Everyone happy. What about the screwed up timelines. Do they just disappear with all the mess? Will the different lines merge and continue as one line, the one that he "fixed".
              I paid very close attention to that, as this is also my question when I see time travel movies.

              In this movie, it's all the same time line. The guy just enters it at different points. There is only one version of him, at different ages.

              In the movie, he goes back and forth, but he never goes outside his own time line. In other words, when he was born, all these things (including his many appearances and interactions with himself) were going to happen.

              The only two times this would seem to be violated, is when his grandmother died alone, and then the grandfather was at her side....and when his ex-girlfriend died, and then was OK.

              I wondered if the altered time lines kept going, without him...or if they melded together. I had the same question in Groundhog day, and in many other time travel movies. Does every time line just keep going, after the time resets?

              I think (but don't know) that by going back far enough, he just changed the time line completely, and some events just never happened. (Like the police scenes.) I think the crazy guy in the hotel room told him that he had to go back really far, to recreate the time line.

              If that's the case, there would, at the end, only be two versions of him in existence...the old man, and the young man....and all the other versions just never happened.

              I could be wrong, but that was my interpretation.


              I still have no idea why he brought his girlfriend's body to the hole in the floor, and what happened to it. It was a dead end, in my opinion. Unless I missed something later that explained it.
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