Things Will Be Different (2024)
October 7, 2024 9:08 AM - Subscribe
Two siblings on the run hide out in a farmhouse and get into some adventures in this cerebral time-travel movie. The trailer has some mild spoilers.
Executive-produced by Benson and Moorehouse (of The Endless etc), the film has a similar feel to their movies, and to other low-budget, high-concept time travel movies like Primer and Coherence. Here's an interview with director Michael Felker (which contains spoilers).
Executive-produced by Benson and Moorehouse (of The Endless etc), the film has a similar feel to their movies, and to other low-budget, high-concept time travel movies like Primer and Coherence. Here's an interview with director Michael Felker (which contains spoilers).
I just watched this and really liked it. Totally my jam. The practical part of my brain loved the time travel and puzzle box aspect of it, and the emotional part of my brain appreciated the well-drawn characters. Thematically, it comes together at the end when the brother speaks the titular line. He's literally and metaphorically stuck in a repeating loop of self-destruction, but next time will be different. And it never is. Time is a vice pinching you in a present you can't escape.
It was interesting to see that Benson and Moorehouse produced it (and Benson is one of the time vice people), since it had a similar vibe to Resolution and The Endless, which I felt were also about the stories you tell yourself, and how you can keep looping yourself in an existence you don't want, but can't seem to quit.
And visually, just some excellent story-telling in this movie. Great montages of time passing. Watch this! It's great!
posted by mrphancy at 12:38 PM on October 7 [2 favorites]
It was interesting to see that Benson and Moorehouse produced it (and Benson is one of the time vice people), since it had a similar vibe to Resolution and The Endless, which I felt were also about the stories you tell yourself, and how you can keep looping yourself in an existence you don't want, but can't seem to quit.
And visually, just some excellent story-telling in this movie. Great montages of time passing. Watch this! It's great!
posted by mrphancy at 12:38 PM on October 7 [2 favorites]
The loop shenanigans worked for me better than Predestination's did - by my understanding, in one loop the intruder is killed leaving a burned body beneath the mill and satisfying the future vice, in another the events of the film play out, the intruder lives and knowledge of the location is disseminated to the protagonists, however the brother can't live with the consequences so restarts the lemniscate until eventually the final coda happens as a way of breaking the loop (maybe?).
I especially appreciated that the protagonists are siblings so no romantic subplot, just the Yojimbo-esque comparison of their memories and perspectives to paint a family picture.
The haunting image of the blood barrier surrounding the house will stick with me.
posted by Molesome at 6:10 AM on October 8
I especially appreciated that the protagonists are siblings so no romantic subplot, just the Yojimbo-esque comparison of their memories and perspectives to paint a family picture.
The haunting image of the blood barrier surrounding the house will stick with me.
posted by Molesome at 6:10 AM on October 8
This was indeed quite good. mrphancy said everything I would have, so mostly just, uh, "Yes, all of that."
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:36 AM on October 10
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:36 AM on October 10
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