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Things will be different
Going to the movies blind has been my thing lately. I find that I get a lot more enjoyment out of movies when I don’t watch long, revealing trailers or read too much about them before diving in. This is my latest watch. Things will be different.
To put it on stage, the film is about troubled siblings Sid and Joe, who unfortunately need to escape the law after a recent heist. Joe, who seems to have quite the criminal clientele, gives his sister a chance to escape from prison and keep the stolen money: a time-travel cabinet in a strange farmhouse.
That’s the basic plot, and while more often than not time travel doesn’t go well, I have to say that in the case of this movie, I honestly enjoyed it. The tropes are there, sure, but the acting was fantastic. Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy are more than capable of carrying the film and their on-screen chemistry as the estranged siblings feel real, tense and emotional all at once. The atmosphere, set and soundtrack were balanced and isolated, simultaneously drawing you in and forcing you out.
if they say that Things will be different It is not without its drawbacks. Things don’t really kick off until we get almost an hour into the setup. I’d really prefer it to be a short film, maybe clocking in at around 45 minutes to an hour. If it had been featured in a TV series or an anthology, it would have been 10/10 for me, but it’s just too much wasted time that does nothing to further the story. If anything, the long, drawn-out sequences where nothing happens take too much away. I wanted to show off your skills as a filmmaker with dramatic shots and close-ups of pensive faces, but this just wasn’t the movie for that.
Despite the negatives, the film still managed to win me over. The final act was full of the action that the film lacked and really ran full time. I absolutely loved the ending and found myself thinking about quite a few different topics besides the obvious plot twists of time travel and family issues. I found a lot of subtle points about the stages of grief as well as substance abuse/mental health topics that reminded me a lot of a movie I love called resolution More than ten years ago.
Now imagine, for me, if you will, the sound of a record screeching and all the sound being sucked out of the room. That was my exact answer when I looked at the film’s stats and discovered that Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead were the executive producers of this film. No wonder I enjoyed it so much. (If you haven’t seen it resolution or infiniteI highly recommend both.)
generally Things will be different As the title says: there is always a desire for change, but also a struggle to ever take meaningful action. While the story often struggles, everything else makes up for it, and by the end you accept that, yes, things could be different. You can interpret it however you want, just do yourself a favor and don’t sleep on it just because it’s slow out of the gate.
I received a copy of this film in exchange for an honest review.
