This film is not based on a real life story. It is, however, based on a real life ad, which ran in the classified pages of Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997. It read: ‘Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.’
While everyone else spent a decade speculating about the ad’s origin, writer Derek Connolly and director Colin Trevorrow have gone a step further; inventing a backstory that pieces the mystery together. In doing so, they’ve pulled off something almost as impossible as time travel – a lo-fi indie romance with a deadpan wit that is never glib, and a touching sweetness that is never cloying.
Aubrey Plaza is Darius, a despondent magazine intern with a face like Wednesday Addams and the sardonic manner of MTV’s cult cartoon teenager Daria. Together with her jackass superior, Jeff (Jake Johnson), and geeky fellow intern Arnau (Karan Soni), Darius is sent to track down the mooncalf who posted the ad. And so they discover Kenneth (mumblecore vet Mark Duplass), an eccentric shelf-stacker who claims that his time machine is real and that government agents are following his every move. Is he just insane or a troubled genius?
People love films for many reasons, I loved this film because the main focus concerns lost dreams and missed chances, and the truism that we all long for a time machine every once in a while. Why wouldn't we? We all fuck up and wouldn't it be great to be able to jump on a time machine and sort it out....or would it? Surely life is about making mistakes and learning from them? That is what makes us who we are? If we could just go back in time every time we fucked up life would be meaningless, how would we ever develop as individuals? Saying that, I wish I could go back to February the 9th 2013 and not be such a dick! Oh well, I haven't got a time machine and on that day I will always have been a dick! (if anybody reads this and has a time machine please e-mail me ASAP) :-))))
Another reason why I enjoyed this film is because you leave the cinema with lots of thoughts in your mind. Imagine If you could go back in time, what time would you go back to?
The Sixties every time for me!
Imagine being able to see the Beatles and the Stones in their prime!
What time would you go back to? Or would you?
The film is about things we should have done but never did.
Things we did but can't change.
Would we change them if we could or are things meant to happen for a reason?
Ultimately, it reinforces the fact that life is for living in the present not in the past!
'why would you want to go back in time when you could be having the adventure right now?'
4/5 film - A fun watch with many facets
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