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            Los Cronocrimenes (Timecrimes) (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007)
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Type..................: Movie
Container file........: MKV
Audio Languages.......: Spanish
Subtitles Ripped......: English, Spanish
Aspect Ratio..........: 1.85:1
Original Aspect Ratio.: 1.85:1
Color.................: Color
Source................: Pal DVD
Genre.................: Sci/Fi, Crime
IMDb Rating...........: 7.3
Movie Information.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/

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Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One 
evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the 
woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. 
Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm 
with scissors. Then a chase starts, leading Hector to a time machine that brings 
him back nearly an hour in the past. 

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Reviewed by Roger Ebert
 
https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20090107/REVIEWS/901079996/1023

Time travel in the movies is always about paradox. And it always drives me nuts. 
Sometimes I enjoy that, in the same way I enjoy chess -- and that's a 
compliment. My mind gets seduced in chess by trains of thought that are hypnotic 
to me but, if they could be transcribed, would be unutterably boring to anyone 
else, since you always think of a chess piece in terms of its function, not its 
name: If this goes here and he moves there and I take that and he takes me back, 
and I reveal the check and he ... And if you're a grandmaster, I don't imagine 
you think in many words at all. It's more like Hmmmm ... a-ha!

"Timecrimes" is like a temporal chess game with nudity, voyeurism and violence, 
which makes it more boring than most chess games but less boring than a lot of 
movies. It begins by introducing us to an ordinary sort of Spanish guy named 
Hector (Karra Elejalde), who is sitting on his lawn of his country place using 
his binoculars and sees a babe stripping in the woods. Now this is important. 
What he is witnessing is the outset of an event he has already participated in, 
because of time travel. And when he goes to investigate, he runs the risk of 
running into himself, which, for paradoxical reasons, he already knows. Not this 
"he." The other "he."

I guess you can make up the rules of time travel as you go along, but whatever 
they are, they have to be inexorable, and there have to be dire consequences 
when a mere mortal rips the fabric of the space-time continuum. The reason we 
don't get more warnings of this danger, you understand, is that travelers into 
the past tend to do things which inalterably change the future, so that their 
present no longer exists for them to return to. I love this stuff.

Hector has a main squeeze named Clara (Candela Fernandez), but leaves her to go 
into the woods, and finds The Girl (Barbara Goenaga), who has been assaulted by 
-- don't get ahead of me here -- and then a little later he meets the Scientist 
(Nacho Vigalondo, the movie's director), who puts him into what turns out to be 
a time- travel machine, which had earlier, or maybe later -- now you're getting 
behind me -- done something to lead Hector to sit on the lawn, or maybe see 
himself sitting on the lawn, or maybe -- but now I'm ahead and behind -- and now 
(earlier, or later?) Hector wraps his bloody head (which I have explained in a 
review I still haven't written) so he will not be recognized by two of the three 
Hectors, although I am not sure whether this is Hector 1, 2 or 3.

I apologize for the 142-word sentence. In time travel, bad things can happen if 
you stop for very long. One of the crucial requirements is apparently not to 
meet yourself coming or going, although if you are physically present twice at 
the same time, what difference does it make if you see yourself, unless it 
drives you mad? If I were to see myself walk into this room right now, I would 
simply nod to myself and ask, "Have you finished writing that review yet?" If I 
replied "No," then I would say, "Well, I have, so why don't we eliminate the 
middle man and you kill yourself?"

That's not too harsh, because I would only be dying in the past of the 
unfinished review, see, and be here with my work all done. But then again, in 
that case, how could I have written it before walking into the room in the first 
place? I couldn't have, that's how, so that means I couldn't walk into the room 
and I would continue writing the review just as I am now, which means the 
paradox would be solved because nothing happened, which, as nearly as I can 
tell, would be positive proof that time travel exists.

These problems are dealt with in "Timecrimes" in a thrilling scenario involving 
possible death by falling off of a roof after getting up there in an unorthodox 
way, and trying to save the life of a woman one of them loves, maybe two, maybe 
all three. This is all done in an ingenious and entertaining way. As you might 
imagine, "Timecrimes" is not a character study. Hector doesn't have the time for 
that, ha ha. In a time-travel saga, by the way, it is considered bad form to 
wonder what makes somebody tick.

If after watching "Timecrimes" you have the strangest feeling that you have seen 
some of these problems explored before, you are (a) merely experiencing deja vu, 
which is the low-cost and safe alternative to time travel, or (b) remembering 
Shane Carruth's splendid "Primer" (2004), which, if it didn't drive you nuts, 
"Timecrimes" will, or has, or vice versa. 


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