![]() In this alternate version of America, everybody - or at least everybody in the urban centers of note - has come to rely on products called TiMERs, little digital wristbands that get stapled right onto your body and plunge their tiny little sensors into your bloodstream. The 2009 film is set in the not-too-distant future (2015 or 2016 seem to fit the evidence best) of a past that started evolving in a different direction from our own right around the turn of the millennium. The film is part of the grand tradition of indie sci-fi that adds one solitary twist to an otherwise normal world. And while I don't think that being in possession of a good cast has ever been the solitary reason for a great film, it sure doesn't hurt. And though I'm not going to talk about this quite yet, it has a superb cast, from "oh, I know who that person is" on down to "nope, I definitely don't know who that is, but now I want to". ![]() It's immensely likeable and ingratiating, a smart little bit of speculative fiction & social satire that plays like Black Mirror made by the world's most reliable optimist. The film, which is to date the only feature made by writer-director Jac Schaeffer, is a little bit stiff and over-eager to keep clarifying every bit of its plot it also has a rather distressing, tin-eared ending. ![]() If we lived in a healthier era for romantic comedies, I might not have found TiMER quite so fetching but we don't, so I did. A review requested by Nathaniel Winer, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.
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