This movie just fell into my Netflix suggestions and it is a gem of a movie. It’s exactly the kind of movie I would have loved and it sort of correlates with Cixin Liu’s books. The movie is about a group comprising two adults and a few children. They venture to search for the man’s father who went into a cave.
Once they enter the cave, they realize there’s a discrepancy in the way light behaves. They even can’t get out of the cave, cause their rope is cut and thrown back at them. They wonder what’s happened. The boy they’d left outside dies and it becomes apparent that he wasn’t the one to cut the ropes. So who did?
Time did.
Apparently, time travels very slowly inside the cave compared to outside. So a minute in the cave, could be several years outside the cave. And as such, once you enter the cave, it’s nearly impossible to actually get help from outside, unless someone plans explicitly for it.
The movie highlights how the group handles the fast-paced movement of time and how they have to waste 0 seconds to get out. Ultimately, the movie ends when future humans come back to get them.
The movie ends in a hurry and that’s understandable considering it is a movie. And obviously, there are budgetary concerns. But the acting and the overall direction was spot on considering these limitations.
That being said, there were a few things that I hope the movie would have done better. For eg. according to some calculations, the actual amount of time that passed was roughly only 3000 years. While 3000 years sounds a lot, it isn’t really a post-apocalyptic scenario. If it was 10,000 years later or a bit more that sounds much truer in case of out-of-the-world shifting for humankind. 3000 years is basically since Christ came into existence and the Church was in power. Human history basically ranged much farther than that.
Anyways, I would give this movie a 4/5 stars simply because its execution seemed to be hampered not by lack of imagination or skill but more by format and budget constraints. With a web series and an unlimited budget, I am sure this movie would have been a much better product overall.
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