{"id":1043,"date":"2008-11-09T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2008-11-09T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T01:28:39","slug":"time-crime-nacho-vigalondo-2007-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007): Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jason Sanders. Viewed at the AFI Film Festival, ArcLight Hollywoo<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phawker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/timecrimes_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/>Going into the movie, I was thinking it would be a very sci-fi kind of movie. \u00a0Again, just like a previous movie, i was wrong about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0480669\/\" target=_new>Timecrimes<\/a>. \u00a0The film&#8217;s organization was absolutely amazing, and the screenplay was magnificent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story starts out with a couple moving into the hills of Spain to relax. \u00a0Hector, the protagonist, sits on a lawn chair to do some sight seeing, and notices a lifeless girl getting undressed, and decides to investigate. \u00a0From this point on, Hector&#8217;s life takes many different changes and finds himself literally living deja-vu. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each scene is perfectly set up to support the story of time travel and avoids any problems with plot holes or any irregularities in the story. \u00a0I was blown away to finally see a film about time travel that thought of every single problem that other films of the genre had, and Vigalondo took it a step up. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karra Elejalde, who plays Hector in the film, did such an amazing performance that I thought he was Hector with a huge problem. \u00a0I rarely get drawn into a film so much to find myself believing the character, but this was one of the few films that did that to me. \u00a0Elejalde shows such passion in this role, and shows so many different changes throughout the film. \u00a0Very rarely do films show characters go through so many changes. \u00a0If they do, most of the time it is not believable.<\/p>\n<p>This film is for anyone who loves mystery and drama. \u00a0The plot is easy to follow, yet it is one of the most complicated plots I have seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jason Sanders. Viewed at the AFI Film Festival, ArcLight Hollywoo Going into the movie, I was thinking it would be a very sci-fi kind of movie. \u00a0Again, just like a previous movie, i was wrong about Timecrimes. \u00a0The film&#8217;s organization was absolutely amazing, and the screenplay was magnificent.\u00a0 The story starts out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2008","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}