Time travel has always been an exciting subject in films and books. It might be because of the improbability of it all, or because of the countless possible ways that a story may go if it messes up with time, but from The Time Machine to Back to the Future and even to the Terminator franchise we've always been fascinated by time travel.
The Infinite Man is a small Australian movie that plays around the same concept. A man (Josh McConville) wants to create the perfect weekend for him and his girlfriend (Hannah Marshall) so he makes them travel back in time to correct whichever mistakes they had made and recreate their relationship. But he ends up creating a time loop in which they are stuck for many years so he has to find a way out for the both of them. The concept is presented like a metaphor for people who are indeed stuck in relationships and do the same wrong things over and over again, for people who have to mature in order to make things right and to manage to have a stable relationship with themselves and the others. And I got it. It just got a bit repetitive at some point.
The film is minimalistic, with only three actors and one set -an abandoned hotel- and it repeats the same scenes again and again, something that is expected from a time-travelling movie but in this one it gets tiring. You are always in the same place -just like the main hero mentally is, coincidence?- and it never changes. You patiently wait for the hero's growth that takes a lot of time to come even though from the very beginning you want to scream at the screen all the mistakes that he's made.
Not a bad film for a debut (this is Hugh Sullivan's first feature length film) and it really gets better as I think about it, but when the heroine asks "Why do you have to make things so complicated?" it feels like the audience might want to ask the director the same question.
Not a bad film for a debut (this is Hugh Sullivan's first feature length film) and it really gets better as I think about it, but when the heroine asks "Why do you have to make things so complicated?" it feels like the audience might want to ask the director the same question.
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