Time travel movies are a staple of
american science fiction cinema. Everything from big blockbusters
like the Back to the Future and
Terminator franchises
to smaller independent film like Donnie Darko and
Primer. Time travel is
a wonderful plot device that allows writers to accomplish all sorts
of things but at the cost of the complicated story lines that come
with paradoxes and alternate timelines. Sometimes the complication
benefits the story, such is the case with Back to the
Future, other times the
complication makes the plot nearly incomprehensible like in
Primer. But what if you made a
time travel movie that didn't contain any of these complications
because it didn't have any time travel? Would it still be a time
travel movie? Does time travel still count if it's only emotional
rather than physical? Is Aubrey Plaza the next Zooey Deschanel?
