INFINITY CHAMBER MOVIEWhen creating a sci-fi film its all too easy to slip off the slippery slope of originality into a gorge of exhausted movie tropes consisting of heroic sacrifices and deus ex machina. By the same measure, many sci-fi films with ballooned budgets expect the ostentatious visual effects to carry the film, but all the same turn out immemorable and lacking in conveying any real or intriguing theme. Low-budget science-fiction films are notorious for being poorly acted, cliché and forgettable. While Infinity Chamber (2016) and Arrival (2016) are economically disparate, they contain the same themes and implications about time, science and share something that can’t be described-something that defines humanity as a separate entity from our animalistic nature. Recently, two new films have each tampered with time in their own way. The warping of time is something that Nolan does masterfully. When watching Christopher Nolan films specifically, the viewer often has to suspend their belief of linear time to understand the story and the message that is conveyed within. Suddenly, chronological order means nothing. Time can become subjective, and allow the viewer to see things in an order that is impossible in the real world. The concept of non-linear progression is the backbone of film. In cinema, however, those rules don’t apply. Without a linear perception of time humanity would likely change to something completely different. It is what allows us to make sense of events, and what helps us understand what we have done, versus what we need to do. Time is an objective fact within our perception of reality. Like the day they arrived.” -Louise Banks There are days that define your story beyond your life. We are so bound by time, by its order… But now I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. “I used to think this was the beginning of your story. By Clayton Keeling, George Ranch High School
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