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The rules of time travel can be a little thin depending on the writer, with back to the future Held as the standard of the genre, but generally, anyone who ends up going to the past shouldn’t try to change too much. The butterfly effect, which The Simpsons‘ Treehouse of Horror best showcased thanks to a malfunctioning toaster, says that the smallest change can wildly alter the future. Netflix’s latest surprise hit cutting timeGets a lot of mileage out of it by dropping a girl 21 years into the past to prevent her sister’s murder and forever altering the timeline as a result.
Back to 2003
The worst part of cutting time Right there in the synopsis, with the understanding that going back 21 years means most of the action takes place in 2003, which explains why your back hurts right now. outer banks Star Madison Bailey showed that she is excellent in the heightened youth drama of that other Netflix Hit, but here, she gets to play Lucy, a young girl who revels in stopping the Sweetly Slasher from killing her older sister, Summer. The killer’s rampage in 2003 left the town forever scarred, with the present showing a neglected downtown and everyone having a sense of weakness and emotional detachment from life, clearly following a phase direction of “repressed action from the very act of breathing.”
She is soon sent back to 2003, thanks to a time machine inside a barn, which is explained about a bit later, and runs into her still-alive sister (another Netflix star, of Ginny and Georgia Antonia Gentry) and her friend, Kevin (played by Griffin Gluck, best known for another Netflix series, Lock and key) and my mother (Megan Best, not a Netflix star, but she was the woman saved Bob Odenkirk by bus in nobody). Through a series of events, Lucy tries to keep Summer alive and stop the Sweetly Slasher, but in the process, accidentally causes various deaths, shattering one of the golden rules of time travel in the process.
A short rollercoaster of a movie
cutting time can be compared to him darkthe german A science fiction time travel seriesAs both end up exploring similar concepts of time travel and proving that sometimes, breaking the common rules of the genre can work out for the best. Where they both differ is each other dark Full of amazing performances, multi-dimensional characters, and a twisting plot, all the while cutting time He cuts. Not against it because it’s incredibly campy, and everyone understood the mission while filming, but know what you’re getting into.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed the campy gameplay and the dumb plot twists cutting time, And I would say that if you liked the time loop of happy death dayYou’ll likely get some enjoyment out of blasting the past in this movie. The ending raises a lot of questions for time travel enthusiasts that can be discussed and debated for a long time, and it’s really more than I expected going into the movie. For slasher fans, there are no notable kills, but at least you’ll never figure out Sweetly Slasher’s identity before the big reveal, or at least not, although I had my theories.
cutting time It’s a short rollercoaster of a cutter, running only 92 minutes, something I also appreciated in the film because it didn’t overstep its bounds and didn’t try to do too much. It’s the kind of movie that in 2003 would have gone straight into the DVD bin at Best Buy, but in 2024 it’s the kind of cheap content streamers are pushing out on an almost daily basis. The concept of a time traveling slasher isn’t new, but at least there it’s fun and never takes itself too seriously.
cutting time Now streaming on Netflix.
