A terrifying time travel

Angel 2022-03-21 09:02:22

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Thoughts determine behavior, and if one could go back in time, people would often make the same choice.


Just in time for the weekend, a middle-aged man Hector (Kara Ellehard) and his wife move to a villa in the countryside.

After arriving at the villa, Hector was very tired after driving all morning. He rested on a rocking chair in the yard and took a telescope to enjoy the surrounding scenery.

Suddenly, he saw a woman in the woods in the distance. She was slowly taking off her shirt. Hector's eyes were straight, when his wife interrupted him and asked him to take the car keys to the store to buy things.

After dismissing his wife, Hector hurriedly raised his binoculars and wanted to continue to look at the woman, but he found that the woman was gone, and only the clothes she took off were left on the ground.

Hector felt that the woman might be blocked by the woods, and he was going to go to see what was going on, so he went to the woods.

When he came to the place where the woman had been, Hector found the woman lying naked on the ground with her clothes scattered on the side.

Hector's heartbeat began to speed up, and he slowly walked towards the woman, wanting to take a closer look at what was going on, when a figure appeared behind him, and he stabbed Hector's arm with a pair of scissors.

Hector couldn't look back after being stabbed, and hurriedly chose a way to escape. After running for a while, he felt that no one was catching up, so he hid behind a tree and turned his head to use his binoculars to see who it was.

The man turned his head, and a bandaged head frightened Hector half to death, but he could still run, and no one wanted to be overtaken by such a terrifying person.

It was getting late, Hector ran for a long time, a big house appeared in the woods, and there was music coming from it, but it seemed that no one was there. In order to escape from the pursuit, Hector smashed the window and entered.

There was a computer room in the house, and there was a walkie-talkie on the table. Hector picked up the walkie-talkie and asked for help. A man's voice came from the walkie-talkie, who claimed to be the owner of the house.

The man told Hector that he was in another house on the top of the mountain, and that Hector's house was surrounded by surveillance, and a man with a bandage was about to break in.

Hector was very scared, but under the guidance of the man, he still found the back door and ran along the path to the top of the mountain.

After reaching the house on the top of the hill, Hector found a large machine in the middle of the house, and the man on the walkie-talkie looked like a technician here.

The man claims that there is nowhere to go, the bandaged man is chasing after him, and he suggests that Hector can hide in the machine.

Hector looked out the window. The bandaged man was coming towards the house. He had no choice but to follow the man's advice and hide in the machine.

It was already dawn when he got out of the machine. Hector found something very strange when he climbed out. The man didn't know him anymore. What was even more terrifying was that Hector saw his villa at the foot of the mountain with a telescope, and there was another self... …


As a work of "Pearl and Jade First", the most outstanding thing about the film is the wonderful conception of the script. As a "soft science fiction", it is not easy to have such rigor under such a story structure.

The film also does a good job in the foreshadowing of details and the rendering of the atmosphere, and the ending is amazing enough, which can be called a very suspenseful work.

Because of the similarity in conception, the film is often compared with "Terror Cruise". Why is the later "Terror Cruise" higher than the former in terms of popularity and reputation?

Friends who have watched the two movies will find that the commercial value of "Time and Space Sin" is obviously not as good as the latter, probably due to the limitation of the production cost, the performance of the two actors is a lot worse, not to mention the sets, special effects and other technologies difference on. In addition, in terms of character shaping and rhythm control, I also think "Terror Cruise" has done a better job.

The story structure of the film is obviously different from that of "Terrorist Cruise", and seeing one does not affect watching another.

"Terrorist Cruise" has an infinite loop structure, and "Time and Space Sin" has a more complex structure, which is somewhat similar to time travel, but this does not mean that it is more brain-burning, because in the film, the director has presented the time travel curve mode to the audience. , Compared with "Terrorist Cruise", this has less space for thinking.

A good work must have a good theme and idea. Compared with the redemption of love in "Terrorist Cruise", "Time and Space" is more about exploring the dark side of human nature.

The former protagonist has never lost the goodness in human nature after facing the painful reincarnation. The starting point of the characters’ motivation is love, while the latter protagonist is lecherous by nature. Although this cannot be used as the reason for the horror travel, it is at least a help, and the end of the film , the choice of the protagonist is thought-provoking. I think the director did not want to say that innocent lives are not important, but made an irony: people will always find that what they have is actually the best, and they can only cherish it when they lose it.

Right, people are not forced to do that, and they seldom do self-examination. Sometimes I also think, who can help me start a curved time travel, so that I can face myself and accept baptism.


Only after experiencing despair and loss will you cherish the present moment. Maybe it is a blessing to lie in a rocking chair and look up at the stars with your lover's hand for a moment.

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Timecrimes quotes

  • [last lines]

    Clara: Hector...

    Héctor: It's okay.

    [throws the scissors]

    Héctor: We still have a while before it starts raining.

  • Héctor: I need help. A man is after me. He's trying to kill me.

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