Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p>I watched a really enjoyable <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> movie called Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.</p><p>It's basically about a guy who discovers a two minute lag between two laptop webcams, and very quickly discovers he can have conversations with himself, with his future self revealing things about the future 2 minutes ahead.</p><p>It's called a <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ScieneFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScieneFiction</span></a> comedy, but really it's just a playful take on time travel. The characters take this simple premise then expand upon it, taking the two minute future/past scenario further, with pleasing results.</p><p>Strangely, many of the scenes are replayed from a different perspective but they don't feel repetitive or become tiresome. Pretty much everything is foreshadowed as well, so the sense of peril is diminished, but it's still very enjoyable and somehow it doesn't matter.</p><p>What drives the film forward is how it takes you through the time travel logic. It's complex but not difficult to follow. It all seems carefully thought out and you could sit and carefully work it all out in your head (I didn't) but it's playful enough to make you think you don't need to scrutinise it too much.</p><p>And it's all set in one location in a shop/office building. It's all neat, simple and contained, and it's contained within 70 mins.</p><p>It's a good film.</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/JapaneseCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseCinema</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Films</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scifi</span></a></p>