The concept of a quantum multiverse within the context of time travel is difficult to grasp for many, but when it is encased in a multi-layered highly stylized project like this, I can see why it is having difficulty finding an audience.
As the title suggests, this is loosely about time travel and the requisite paradoxes that come with such stories, but it is also about altered states of reality and perception. Judet-Weinshel uses the 'Memento' style of temporal discord with rapid jumps between points in time to keep the audience off balance, but then he layers on top of it a mix of surrealistic dialogue just to invoke a sense of the ambiguous psychosis that the protagonist is feeling. Then he throws in a mix of realist vs. fantastical style elements to deepen the complexity of the presentation.
At first I didn't understand the purpose of the fantastical technology elements ( e.g., the flying machine), then I realized that each character was associated with a different artistic stylization. Weird. I've never seen that before -- usually different stylizations are used to depict different places or sometimes different states of mind (e.g., dream sequences), but to pin a variety of styles to each of the characters is really original. This was a difficult project to choose to introduce such a new method, but most of the audience is going to be lost anyway so why not?
Great job, Gabriel! Ambitious and groundbreaking. Maybe in a decade or so the innovation in this project will be more appreciated.
Triggers:
Violence - weapons, homicide by the protagonist
Strobe effects
Drug use
