Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (5 Stars)


This is the tenth film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

It's a simple film, but brilliant in its simplicity. Kato is a young man who owns a cafe in a big city. He lives in an apartment above the cafe. He uses a monitor to observe the cafe from his apartment. One day he finds out that there's a two minute delay between the television screens in the cafe and his apartment. He can speak to his past self from two minutes in the future.

Not satisfied with two minutes, he brings his screen from his apartment down into the cafe and puts the two television screens facing one another. There are pictures within pictures, each smaller picture a further two minutes in the future.

The film is a comedy, but the temporal paradoxes are mind-bending. It has similarities with "Primer", but on a smaller scale. This is my favourite film of the festival so far. Films like this make me glad I'm attending the festival.

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