Saturday, June 29, 2013

Safety Not Guaranteed

Safety Not Guaranteed. 

This is a low budget film to the extreme is a far cry from the special effect filled and over priced summer movies that now seem to dominate every season.  I'd heard about this movie for a long time, but just never got around to seeing until now, and unlike most low budget films this one has a really focused storyline, is not pretentious, and only an hour and 25 minutes long. 

 All in all it made for a good watch and is a gem of a film. 

 I don't know if I'd label this movie sci-fi?  There's an element of time travel that threads it's way through the movie, but it's more talked about than used. The focus of the movie is more about character and relationships, than about time travel. Time travel is just a foundation to see how these characters are going to act and interact with each other. Two of the characters want to go back in time to fix a relationship, while the other one is trying to reconnect to a relationship he had in the past and the last person is trying to just connect with a girl in the present. 

I really liked how the story set itself up and then let everything that happens just happen based on a classified add that starts everything in motion. There were still some things not answered by the movie's end, but all in all it was a good ending and an interesting movie easily worth watching.

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