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Hi, this is Barry, and welcome to my site. 41 is a 2012 time-travel movie written and directed by Glenn Triggs made with a teeny tiny budget . The plot is centred on a man whose life gets turned upside down when he lands up at a motel to discover a hole in the bathroom floor that takes him back through time. A big thank you to many of my readers for recommending this movie to me. There’s a lot going on in this film, so I’ve created a timeline diagram to help with the plot-walkthrough. Here’s the plot analysis and the ending of the 2012 time-travel movie 41 explained, spoilers ahead.

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41 Movie: Full Film

Here are links to the key aspects of the movie:

• – Timeline Diagram
• – Timeline-1 (Prime Timeline)
• – Timeline-2
• – Timeline-3
• – Timeline-4
• – Timeline-5
• – How is Patient X a Lawyer in that diner scene?
• – Timeline-6
• – Ending Explained
• – Who is the manager at Heathscape motel?
• – Is Lauren saved, or is she dead?

Before we begin, we need to establish the rules of time travel in the movie 41. When one goes back in time, they leave their own timeline and land up in the past by 12 hours in one of many parallel universes (a.k.a timelines). This is similar to the time travel in Avengers: Endgame  and  Primer’s time travel logic . What does this imply? It means that Aidan can’t go back in time to change his own past; he can never save his  Lauren. He can only alter and affect the past events of other timelines. What’s more? Every timeline has visits from more than one Aidan at various points in time. I know this sounds confusing, so let’s go through the events one timeline at a time.

41 Movie: Timeline Diagram

41 Movie: Timeline-1 Explained (Prime Timeline)

This is the prime timeline where the movie begins. This is the Aidan the film follows from the beginning to the ending of the movie 41; we’ll call him Aidan-1. This does not mean that Timeline-1 is the one to initiate the time-travel mess. It is merely one of the countless timelines caught in the web of interlocked timelines. The numbering from 1 is just for convenience. It’s essential to know that there are other Aidan’s in Timeline-1 that the plot doesn’t follow. They are from other undisclosed timelines:

• Aidan-a, who shows up and says, “Don’t go to the Heathscape motel”. He appears to be here to stop the accident but is the one who causes it in Timeline-1.
• Aidan-b, the old manager of the motel. He appears to have gone to the past to save his grandfather but failed. Why failed? Remember, the grandmother is alone in Timeline-1.
• There could also be others – Aidan-c, who is taken into custody, and Aidan-d, who breaks Aidan-c out and leaves a hacksaw for him. Though this is not shown in the film, it is very likely that these events happen in Timeline-1 just as they do in the other timelines.

Timeline-1’s Main Events

• Aidan-1’s day begins well enough with his philosophy exam. 
• Aidan-1 is met by his doppelganger (Aidan-a) warning him to not go to the Heathscape motel. 
• Aidan-1 goes to the hospital to spend time with Grandma-1. 
• Aidan-1 gets a call from his friend Nick-1 who asks for his brother’s middle name. Aidan-1 responds correctly and hangs up. At this point (not shown), Nick-1 is sitting with another Aidan (perhaps Aidan-a) who is claiming to be a time traveller.
• Aidan-1 goes to the motel and meets his ex-girlfriend, Lauren-1.
• Lauren-1 and Aidan-1 head to a diner. We hear someone drop plates. This is caused by the other Aidan (possibly Aidan-a) but is not shown on screen.
• Aidan-1 offers Lauren-1 a lift home, and they meet with an accident. We are shown that the person on the road is another Aidan, but only for a fraction of a second (again, this is probably Aidan-a).
• Aidan-1 is at the hospital, and Lauren-1 dies. 
• A set of cops (cops-1) tell him to stay in the hospital as he’s being charged with murder.
• A patient tells Aidan-1 that he needs to go to room 41 of the Heathscape motel and find a hole in the bathroom floor. This is not shown, but this man was earlier at the motel and happened to see another Aidan (Aidan-a) magically appear from the bathroom. After that, he investigates the bathroom and finally cuts his wrists and is admitted (Aidan-a makes the 911 call). We’ll call this chap Patient-X1.
• Aidan-1 goes to the motel, finds the hole in room 41 and enters it. He travels back in time and leaves Timeline-1, and goes to Timeline-2.

Just to make a point here, Timeline-1’s people would have suddenly had their Aidan-1 disappear on them. All they’d know is he ran away from the hospital and went missing. And would be experienced by every parallel universe as long as Aidan from that universe uses room 41’s bathroom floor portal.

41 Movie: Timeline-2 Explained

• Aidan-1 arrives in Timeline-2 12 hours earlier than he left Timeline-1.
• Aidan-1 exits the bathroom and runs into Patient-X2, jumping on the bed. Patient-X2 has not yet met an Aidan yet.
• Aidan-1 leaves the room to see Aidan-2 and Lauren-2 heading out. Aidan-1 follows them.
• At the diner, Aidan-1 runs into his professor, Wertz-2, who tells him about a meeting he has with other professors to discuss philosophy.
• Aidan-1 knocks over a bunch of plates. This event tells us that Timeline-1 also had another Aidan (Aidan-a) who broke the plates.
• Aidan-1 runs to the spot of the accident and waves his hands desperately. Lauren-2 sees him and pulls at the steering wheel, causing the accident.
• Aidan-1 returns to the motel in disbelief. In the room, Patient-X2 is lying with his wrists slit, and Aidan-1 calls 911. This is how we know that in Timeline-1, another Aidan (Aidan-a) saved Patient-X1.
• Aidan-1 enters the hole in the bathroom floor and leaves Timeline-2, and goes to Timeline-3 12 hours prior.

41 Movie: Timeline-3 Explained

• Aidan-1 hoes home, takes a nap and talks to Nick-3 and Jess-3 about his time-travel episodes. Aidan-1 asks Nick-3 to call their Aidan (Aidan-3).
• Nick-3 calls, Aidan-3 picks up. Nick-3 asks what his brother’s middle name is and gets the correct response. This is how we know that in Timeline-1, the other Aidan (Aidan-a) was with Nick-1 when Aidan-1 receives the call at the hospital.
• Aidan-3 goes to the site of the accident to see another Aidan (Aidan-e) waiving his hands. Aidan-1 pushes Aidan-e out of the way and punches him in the face. I find it odd that a person could smack himself from a completely different parallel universe yet feel the pain.
• The accident occurs anyway. We don’t know why. Perhaps another Aidan (Aidan-f) came to that spot and waved as Aidan-1 was beating up Aidan-e.
• Aidan-1 goes over to the car, takes dead Lauren-3 and heads to the motel. He tries to take her with him through the hole. Aidan-1 leaves Timeline-3 and goes to Timeline-4 12 hours prior.

41 Movie: Timeline-4 Explained

• Aidan-1 arrives in Timeline-4, but Lauren-3’s body didn’t make it. It looks the dead don’t travel through timelines, or Lauren-3’s body was sent to a different unknown Timeline.
• Aidan-1 goes over to his professor’s house, Wertz-4. Here he learns that he is lost among the infinite parallel universes. And neither can he hope to go back to his own Timeline-1, nor can he save his  Lauren-1. Wertz-4 advises that any jump back in time should be made for the right reasons.
• Disappointed, Aidan-1 wanders the city and is caught by cops-4.
• At the station, Aidan-1 tries to tell the truth. He is broken out by an Aidan from another timeline, Aidan-g.
• Finding a strategically placed hacksaw, Aidan-1 cuts himself free and makes a run for it.
• Aidan-1 loses cops-4 and breaks into a garage to saw the remainder of the handcuff. As he picks the hacksaw, Aidan-1 realizes that another Aidan from another timeline helped him get free.
• Knowing he needs to do the same in his following timeline, Aidan-1 takes the saw to the motel. Aidan-1 leaves Timeline-4 and goes to Timeline-5 12 hours prior.

41 Movie: Timeline-5 Explained

• Aidan-1 triggers the alarm at the station and leaves the hacksaw under the trashcan. He does this as he knows some Aidan (Aidan-h) is held captive by the cops-5 in this timeline.

How is Patient-X a Lawyer in that diner scene?

• Aidan-1 goes to a diner where he sees Patient-X5, who’s not lost his mind and claims to be a lawyer. Patient-X5 says that he had enrolled for the war in his youth, but something made him change his mind. While we’re not shown this Patient-X from some timeline has arrived in the past of Timeline-5 and altered a critical moment causing a cascading effect on Patient-X5’s life. Instead of going to war and losing his mind, he is now a reputed lawyer.
• Aidan-1 gets a call from the hospital and heads over to meet Grandma-5. Looks like she’s fading and is going to die soon. She sorrowfully remembers how a golf ball caused her husband to drown in 1957 and has missed him ever since. Aidan-1 realizes that in at least one timeline, he can save his grandfather.
• Aidan-1 heads back to the motel and leaves Timeline-5, and goes to Timeline-6 12 hours prior.

41 Movie: Timeline-6 Explained

• Aidan-1 runs into Patient-X, who is not from Timeline-6. How do we know? This Patient-X seems to know about time travel and recognizes Aidan-1. It appears he has no recollection was what day it is. 
• The hotel manager shows up, and Aidan-1 and Patient-X run into the bathroom. Patient-X confirms to Aidan-1 that it is possible to change a timeline if one influences the right moments.
• Patient-X uses the hole and disappears to an unknown timeline.
• Aidan-1 leaves Timeline-6 and goes to Timeline-7 12 hours prior.

41 Movie: Timeline-7.8.9.10.11…… Explained

Aidan-1 repeatedly uses the hole to keep going backwards in time through various timelines. He takes breaks to revisit his breakup and then the earlier unforgettable moments of his relationship with Lauren. Remember, Aidan-1 is traversing through multiple timelines here, one per each jump backwards in time.

41 Movie: Ending Explained: Timeline-N

After countless trips in and out of the hole ( about 40,150 times, okay, I counted ), Aidan-1 goes back to the year 1957 in Timeline-N, a day before Grandpa-N drowned and meets him. To ensure Grandpa-N doesn’t swim over to the golf ball and drown, Aidan-1 gifts him a golf ball but tells him not to open the present just yet. When Grandpa-N strikes his ball into the lake, he decides to go swim and get it. Upon feeling his pocket, he realizes Aidan-1 has gifted him a golf ball. Content, he walks away home. Grandpa-N doesn’t die and lives happily with Grandma-N. In the ending of the movie 41, we are shown that in Timeline-N, Grandpa-N is by the bedside of Grandma-N.

Who is the manager at Heathscape motel?

At the end of the movie 41, it is revealed that the old motel manager is Aidan. In this timeline (Timeline-N), Aidan-1 has was able to save his grandfather. This is an exceptional timeline. If you notice, the grandmother was all alone in all other timelines even though those timelines had an old manager Aidan. Perhaps the golf ball gift trick didn’t work in alternate timelines, or the other Aidans took a different approach to save the grandfather and failed.

Is Lauren saved, or is she dead?

While the 41 movie ending shows Aidan-N and Lauren-N deciding to walk instead of taking the car, this didn’t happen in many of the other timelines. In Timeline-N, old Aidan-1 meets a young Aidan-N to tell him to go to the Heathscape motel. When Aidan-N is contemplating dropping Lauren-N back home, he looks up to see the manager, old Aidan-1. Aidan-N doesn’t know why the manager called him to the motel, but he considers this to be a moment of divine intervention. Perhaps, to spend a longer time with Lauren-N, Aidan-N offers to walk her home. She agrees, and the two leave. Old Aidan-1 smiles happily as he’s understood how to influence circumstances to change the events. 

So yes, this Lauren-N has been saved, and this Aidan-N may not travel through time. But this happy ending is limited to a small set of timelines where an Aidan could make the right impact. Sadly, the remaining majority of the universes will have Lauren dying and Aidan disappearing.

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2012 Directed by Glenn Triggs

Time travels with you

A young man discovers a hole in the floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.

Chris Gibson Dafna Kronental David Macrae Shane Lee Keith Gordon Nick Antoniades Menik Gooneratne Glen Hancox Robert Plazek Warwick Leeson Matt Young Lauren Wade Anne Cordiner Toby Pierpoint Peter Bright Bethia de Groot Gordon Boyd Stephanie Lillis Jessica Miller Elliot Cyngler Rose Lewis Zachary Hare Clara Francesca Pagone Charlotte McDonald Alan Jacobs Don Bridges

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Glenn Triggs

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Fiona Eloise Bulle

Producers Producers

Glenn Triggs Fiona Eloise Bulle

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Jessica Miller Glenn Triggs Bethia de Groot Stephanie Lillis

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Heath Brown

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• Premiere Made In Melbourne Film Festival
• Premiere Las Vegas Film Festival
• Premiere Rhode Island International Film Festival
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Review by CGS ★★

If you're going to do a story with time travel in it, I think you have two options if you don't want to confuse or annoy the viewer:

1. You either nail the time logic ( Primer , Timecrimes )

2. You use time travel poetically and you don't even worry about the logic ( The Terminator , Somewhere in Time )

41 tries to have it both ways and therefore fails.

But I think my biggest gripe was that there's NO way that motel is over 50 years old.

Review by Alex Jackson ★½ 1

If I could go back in time to yesterday, I wouldn’t watch this film

Review by porksweats ★★½

this movie could have been 41 minutes and much better, I did like how they approached time travel though that was neat

Review by park618 ½ 3

Just slash your tires dude

Review by Max Wagner ★★½

How many times did Aidan crawl out of the hole while some dude was takin a shit, and had to go “FUCK FUCK SORRY YOU DIDNT SEE ANYTHING IM GOING BACK IN THE HOLE NOW”

Review by Brandon Williams ★★★

A micro-budget SF time travel adventure... where have I seen that before 🤔. While certainly not Primer, did build a reasonably complex narrative. It has one of the more impactful last acts of mini budget SF I've seen. No waterworks, but sparked emotion. So if you choose this one, make sure to hang in there.

Admit I had to restart the film once because after a heavy pasta dinner, the first act was slow enough that I fell asleep. Only made it about 20 mins in. After a nice long nap and a Starbucks doubleshot, I grinded on through the second act. While more interesting, it still hadn't hooked me. Once past the ridiculous cop characters at the 50 min…

Review by Dina ▪️🔹 ★★★

Watched on a road trip. Time travel, so interesting premise but overall felt empty /flat.

Review by Ben “秃头” Jones ★★★½

Time travel films are always difficult to pull off. It either requires a sound internal logic that manages to tie together all the lose ends or you have something less science based and go with a fantastical idea of what you want time travel to be and let others worry about how it all works.

However, where 41 fails is that it tries to appease both, and whilst this works in short bursts, it ultimately falls apart because of the lack of consistency.

Despite this, what 41 does have is a lot of heart. Whilst the film changes gears several times, it's not until the final reel that it really hits it's stride, revealing the consequence in a moment of…

Review by Bram Christiaens ★½

It was a good try, but there were too many holes in his logic. Either he didn't see Timecrimes or he didn't pay attention.

Review by Rolf ★★★½

A philosophy student meets his Doppelgänger who tells him not to got to a certain place. Of course he still does which sets in motion a time travel scenario... Imagine TIMECRIMES without the crime angle. 41 uses the same premise creating many timelines which our protagonist learns to deal with until he literally finds his way. It uses all the elements which make the genre so much fun and really leaves you thinking after it's finished. It's no PRIMER though and never loses sight of its emotional core which keeps the audience close by. Made for a tiny budget in Australia 41 is clearly a passion project which may lack cinematic grandeur and struggles a bit with its cast but as so very often with this genre, it's the story that counts and I'm very happy with what I got.

Make or Break Scene: Revealing the identity of a character in the end.

MVT: The story.

Score: 7/ 10

Review by Matt White ★½

His grandmother is in a “nursing home” laying on a fucking folding table. Wtf?

Review by dklenci ★½

don't typically like to dunk on more underground stuff but this is the most bland time travel movie i've ever seen

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• June 13, 2012

The documentary “41” opens with ocean spray fizzing up from the rocks around the shingled summer house of George Herbert Walker Bush in Kennebunkport, Me., and doesn’t move far from that idyllic spot.

This HBO film, which has its debut on Thursday, isn’t just a loving look at an elderly former president. It’s a nose-pressed-against-the-window peek at the patrician class — not the superrich, but the privileged, well-bred WASPs who inspired Booth Tarkington novels and, later, J. Crew catalogs.

Put it this way: There were more than a few crises in the life and presidency of Mr. Bush, but this account puts almost as much weight on the hurricanes that badly damaged the Kennebunkport compound as on the decision to wage the gulf war.

The documentary, produced by Jerry Weintraub (“Ocean’s Eleven”), who has a house in Kennebunkport and is a longtime friend, doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a homage to a good man who served his country well in war and peace.

Bracketed by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Mr. Bush’s one term can seem a little like a sorbet palate cleanser between two rich, complicated, high-calorie dishes. When his son, George W. Bush, took office, the younger Bush seemed at times to hold out his father’s accomplishments as a what-not-to-do list. George H. W. Bush’s was not necessarily the most momentous presidency, but his cautious, unglamorous leadership holds up pretty well in retrospect.

The former president, who just turned 88, tells his story with humor and remarkable recall; it’s not until well into the film that an off-camera interviewer can be heard asking questions like, “Why did you leave your extremely successful business to run for public office?”

Flattery brings out the best in Mr. Bush, who doesn’t like the word “I” and explains that his mother told him, “Nobody likes a braggadocio.” This biography — filled with baby pictures, dogs, home movies, mowed lawns, boats, Andover and Yale graduation portraits, a Skull and Bones membership list and even footage of Mr. Bush as a Navy pilot being rescued after his plane was shot down in 1944 — is not complete.

The camera lingers with a decorator’s enthusiasm over a Kennebunkport bedroom, painted robin’s-egg blue from floor to rafter. There is no mention of the Willie Horton attack spots or the poor choice of Dan Quayle as vice president, but that doesn’t mean “41” isn’t revealing.

Formal in coat and tie, Mr. Bush recalls the time he and his brother borrowed the motorboat of their grandfather, George Herbert Walker, the patriarch who built the Maine family estate now known as Walker’s Point. The two boys drove into the dock too fast, upsetting lobster fishermen and their pots. Two irate lobstermen came to the house, asking to speak to Mr. Walker. He sent them away, “Downton Abbey” style.

“ ‘I’m at lunch; tell them to come back,’ ” Mr. Bush recalls his grandfather saying. When he was finished, Walker made his grandsons apologize in person. “It’s a lesson I’ve never forgotten,” Mr. Bush says. He sees it as a lesson in humility and good manners; outsiders are more likely to feel instead the humiliation of lobstermen forced to wait while the grandee goes on with his meal.

Mr. Bush has whimsical charm and an Old World courtliness, and he is quite funny about his youth, saying that as a teenager he wasn’t “forward leaning” with girls but that he remembers “admiring the figures,” particularly one young woman who wore a “rubber bathing suit,” adding, “I’ll never forget it; it was just to die for.”

He doesn’t say he was a catch, but the early photographs do. In almost every shot he looks off into the distance, but his bride, Barbara, gazes up at him, as if dazzled by her own amazing luck.

Mr. Bush refers to his second-born son as “Governor Jeb” and doesn’t discuss the eldest until the very end. When he mentions George W. Bush, he speaks as a loving father, not as a predecessor whose example was praised but not followed.

He is generous about Reagan and even Richard M. Nixon and touchingly open about his young daughter Robin, who died of leukemia in 1953. He is characteristically modest about his war record.

But even old age doesn’t quite blunt the competitive spirit that drove him into politics and still compels him to drive a speedboat and sky-dive. (He plans another drop at 90.) He is generous with credit, but not with his golf cart. (A sign on it says “Property of #41: Hands Off!”)

He doesn’t have an unkind word for anyone, really, except Ross Perot. “No, can’t talk about him,” he says with sudden brusqueness when asked about the Texas businessman who ran as a third-party candidate in 1992. “I think he cost me the election, and I don’t like him. Other than that, I have nothing to say.”

The former president has lots to say about more pleasant memories, and “41” gives him plenty of time and a beautiful oceanside setting to share them.

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41 is Low Budget Time Travel Brilliance

There was a moment in the movie 41 when I thought to myself, I’ve never enjoyed a more thoroughly awful movie so much before. Yes, I realize that sentence doesn’t even make sense. But, like 41, this sentence is a perfect Gordian knot that better explains the low low budget, Australian, indie time travel flick than I ever could outright. I think the best way to put it plainly is this, sometimes it is more important to investigate an idea, than to nail its particulars. The acting here is poor. The sets and the casting, nonexistent. The directing is mediocre at best. The lot of it is best seen as an nearly acceptable senior class project. But it is the big ideas behind this little film that could, that propel it to us today. It is the insightful resolutions and mindjob twists that are really worth our trouble and our time.

Here on THiNC. we pride ourselves on looking for under valued films within the mainstream cinema world to discuss and unpack together. We look for movies that the box office has passed over because it is in this slush pile that we find independent film makers that are the least beholden to formula and Hollywood expectation. By daring to make the movie 41, we see things that aren’t generally done in film. And that is the exciting bit. If you are trying to decide if it is worth your time, I’d most liken it to Timecrimes , Diverge , or actually, maybe Anti Matter would be more apropos? Here, regardless have a trailer…

So you can see for yourself, really really low production quality. And yet, it’s here. On this page… being promoted by me, for you to see! It’s got to have something more going on here. GOT TO. So, why don’t we dig in and see what we can see under the hood of this little car, shall we? But from here on out be spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you can watch the movie right here:

The Movie 41 Deep Dive Walkthrough

The movie starts out with our protagonist, Aidan, arriving to tell himself a warning. Yes, you heard me correctly. Aidan shows up, and tells Aidan, not to go to the Heathscape Hotel. Now, remember, this is a SPOILER FILLED discussion. And that being the case, I figure, heck, let’s blow this thing up right out of the gates and start with this complicated little diagram I created of the entirety of the movie and the directions through time Aidan moved.

And granted, sans context, this diagram is complicated to take in. But after I flipped back through some of the timelines and infographics I created in the past, I figured I needed to do one for this movie too. For instance, Timecrimes , or my diagram Live Die Repeat maybe, or Mr. Nobody’s shattered timeline , or this Dark intrigue poster I threw together, or maybe some Upstream Color goodness? You get the idea. But yeah, I figured I might as well throw some paint at this movie’s timeline as well. If anyone knows Glenn Triggs, and can entice him to come out of hiding for an interview – maybe this interview will inform him what kind of nutter I am, and that he should actually steer clear? Alright, let’s dive into the timeline.

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#1

As the movie kicks off, Aidan heads to university, and then afterwards he has the surreal encounter to meet himself. Aidan’s other self tells him, “Do not… NOT, go to the Heathscape Motel. Afterwards, he goes and visits with his grandmother – and while there he gets a call from himself and his brother in timeline 3 asking what his brother’s middle name is.

After visiting with his grandmother, he heads to the Heathscape Motel, completely disregarding his own advice. He sees his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, whom he broke up with several years ago. They have dinner, hear something crash (A2), and then Aidan offers to give her a ride home. And during the drive, Aidan crashes and kills Lauren. Aidan heads to the hospital where he meets Patient X who tells him he needs to get to the Heathscape Motel, room 41 specifically. So he breaks out of the hospital, heads to the hotel and breaks into the room through the window. He finds the hole in the bathroom Patient X told him about, and he goes in.

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#2

When Aidan comes out of the hotel room and onto the balcony, he sees A1 about to invite Lauren to dinner. Aidan2 follows the two of them to the cafe and watches from afar. The person next to Aidan2 tells him that his paper was extraordinary this time, and that he should join his physics discussion club. PAPER? What paper? Anyway, in his excitement he bumps into a waitress and causes things to crash – which A1 hears. Aidan2 runs to the spot on the road A1 and Lauren crashes, but ends up being the cause for the crash. Aidan2 runs back to the hotel room 41, and sees that Patient X is there on the bed, having attempted suicide.

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#3

Aidan3 heads to his brother’s house, and he attempts to tell his brother that he has jumped in time. To prove it, he has his brother call his own phone, and Aidan1 picks up. Aidan’s brother asks him what his brother’s middle name is, he answers South, and then hangs up. After this dinner, he runs out to the spot where the accident happens and Aidan3 tackles Aidan2, attempting to save Lauren from getting killed in the accident. But as they are lying in the grass, Aidan3 hears the car crash anyway. Aidan3 heads back to the time portal with Lauren’s body (but she just disappears – can someone explain this logic to me? Like all of it. Why did he take her in the first place? Why did she disappear? Did he just leave her in the hole? Gah.)

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#4

The beginning of the 4th timeline is this weird science/physics discussion group Aidan was invited to. It is funny in that Aidan poses a hypothetical question to this group as a fictional play, asking for help on how to solve this literary conundrum (but the girlfriend keeps dying!). But all I could think about was Glenn Triggs, asking his fictional characters for help with the sticking points in this conundrum filled plot! hahah. Regardless, the question for Aidan that is on the table is simple enough – how does he change Lauren’s fate? Nothing is working. And the big take away from this conversation, that literally changes Aidan’s perspective on what to do next, is that he needs to change the person, not the event. Or that was my take away anyway.

After he leaves the physics discussion group, he is captured by the agents that had originally told him not to leave the hospital. And when Aidan4 tells them about the time portal and about his not having anything to do with the accident, the agents ask him why he doesn’t break himself out if this is true. Voila, just like that, the fire alarm goes off. But it wasn’t another Aidan that pulled the alarm, rather it was Patient X (which is significant from a narrative standpoint, in that it would require one more detail that we would have had to clean up later, as we’ll see in a second). And in kicking over the trashcan nearby, Aidan sees a hacksaw that allows Aidan to saw off his handcuffs and flee. (I knew IMMEDIATELY that Aidan5 was going to have put that there for Aidan4…)

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#5

Aidan jumps backwards in time, and places the hacksaw under the trashcan for his previous timeline, then heads off to the diner. He meets Patient X there, but this time X seems fairly well adjusted and normal. Aidan begins to think that there is significance in the change that X was able to make, and that things aren’t determined… but, in fact, may actually be changeable, which is always the push and pull of time travel movies. You think they are about time travel, and about love. But no. They are actually a metanarrative discussing freewill and determinism. I digress though, because right now, Aidan is more concerned about saving Lauren, not with having a philosophical discussion. And so he heads back to room 41 and finds Patient X there, but this time, a raving lunatic. The two are chased by the owner of the motel.

And I’m going to pause right here a second and discuss this guy. The owner. Right? Now, tell me… the very first time that Aidan walks into the the motel, and meets Lauren. Remember that? Did you, or did you not, IMMEDIATELY guess who the motel owner was? Right, all those of you that guessed correctly, please raise your hands. Interesting. All those who didn’t? OK, and how many of you would like me to finish the timeline so that we can actually talk about what it all means. OH! hahah. OK, I’m going already. Geeze. What I meant to say was, AidanX was chasing Aidan5, and Aidan starts traveling back and back, and further back in time.

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#6

Into the hole, out of the hole… and he stops at the point where Aidan and Lauren broke up. (Speaking of which, Aidan mentions that they broke up “several years ago,” and in order to go, let’s say, 3 years back, he would have had to jump into that hole, and back out again, two thousand one hundred ninety times! Aidan’s calves and biceps should be ripped! hahah.)

Now, we see Aidan arguing with Lauren, and eventually walking away. But then we see Aidan crawl out of Lauren’s closet (which isn’t creepy at all), and we cut away. But soon after this scene, we start to notice Aidan1 (otherwise known as Aidan) and Lauren continuing their relationship when it shouldn’t actually be continuing. But with Aidan and Lauren back together again, Aidan6 has nothing to do in this time – and so he heads back to the motel.

41 Movie Timeline Aidan#7

Aidan, not content with his calves and biceps workout to go back in time three years, decides to go back in time 74 years. (Not to be anal retentive, but that would literally be over 50,000 entrances and exits. And that doesn’t count for sleeping, eating, breaks, interruptions by guests staying in the hotel room…which, we see that there are plenty of. We also don’t see any embarrassing wait times for individuals sitting on the toilet. If we account for that, sleep, food, and other things, I’m guessing his trip back in time probably took him well over 2 months to pull off. And that’s with things going well! Hahahah. So funny. He could bike across the United States faster!)

Regardless, our tired, but intrepid hero arrives in 1941! And what does he do? He meets his grandfather and then saves him from the infamous death-via-golf ball story his grandmother loves to tell anyone who will listen. And with that?!? There is only one last thing for Aidan7 to figure out. And that is, what the heck should he do with himself? He can’t hang out with Lauren, she’s with Aidan1 (though I would have stolen her and taken her back in time with me. With the knowledge of where the stock market goes, and even a rudimentary knowledge of sports he would soon be a billionaire!) and so he eventually takes over as the manager of the Heathscape Hotel. Right? We’ve covered this before. And with that, the movie ends with Aiden and Lauren deciding to walk instead of drive… but it also wouldn’t have been a huge deal because they weren’t broken up. They’d just choose not to drive, as opposed to driving on that fateful day.

The Ending of the Movie 41 Explained

There is a very clear, and unambiguous answer to what happens at the end of the movie. I sort of explained what happened above. But not really how the times flow at the end. And even the movie doesn’t discuss all of the various issues and problems still outstanding.

So, as I said above, the glitch of this film is that any top level change refused to allow Lauren to survive. All summarized by the phrase, “Don’t go to the Heathscape Motel.” But nothing Aidan does allows her to survive. Not going to the spot to warn himself. Not taking himself out, and keep him from trying to warn them. And so he realized, the only real solution was to not have separated in the first place. By not ever separating, he keeps himself from stumbling upon her at the hotel. Which, in turn, 100% totally changes the line of the original (white timeline above) storyline. Which solves the key point of the movie – which was, how does Aidan save his lost love of his life.

The second large question that faces us as we come to the end is – what the heck happens to the extra Aidan? Well, as we discussed, he becomes the hotel manager and waits his entire life in order to see himself avoid the pitfalls he originally caused. But, that isn’t the right question to ask. The right question to ask is, where did ALL of the Aidan’s go? Here, let me pull a diagram I created for Primer that will explain the problem:

Whenever someone walks into a time machine, they come out, backwards in time. And the logic would say, as long as the you of the future gets into that time machine, you have one long line of you, even if there are two of you standing in one room at the same time. But there is nothing forcing your future you to get in the hole. Sure, they did once, but they might not. Heck, you could walk up to the hole with a backhoe and fill it with 12 stories of fill dirt. And then there would always be two of you. Which, (again, relying on my trusty Primer post diagrams again) would look something like this:

Which, was a very very important detail for Primer, but wasn’t really discussed much in this movie. There could be piles and piles of Aidan’s at the end of the movie, to be honest.

But What Does It All Mean?

As the movie ends, we are given the following quote:

“We are not really here that long, and for the majority of us, we only get one chance, at all of this.”

Doesn’t it feel like we are shown the amount of work necessary to correct a simple mistake – which was Aidan’s breaking up with the girl of his dreams? And couple that with the fact that we only get one chance at this life, maybe we shouldn’t be too proud to ask forgiveness and apologize? Maybe it is in our best interest to regularly consider the long term impacts of our choices. Yes, your decision between Taco Bell and McDonald’s probably doesn’t matter much (minus the fact that you should have chosen NEITHER). But it could be that your pigheadedness with your spouse, or daughter, your parent, over some issue that ultimately didn’t matter is really going to have lasting impacts throughout your life. Could this be the message of 41?

In the making of 41 documentary , Glenn Triggs talks about how he saw the movie as if the world existed in a multiverse where any possibility could actually happen, but maybe not actually to you. So, you make a mistake with your spouse, and the next thing you know, you are divorced and on the street. But in the next universe over it could be that that mistake didn’t actually happen. And the old Aidan signifies this universe where the mistake happened – but the young Aidan, the one that ends up with Lauren is signifying this other multiverse universe where the mistake never happened.

Which, is interesting, because with Primer , Shane Carruth’s story had nothing to do with time travel. It was all about what would make a strong relationship fall apart? What level of power would corrupt that kind of friendship? And here we have a time travel movie talking about mistakes and our short time on earth. About how we need to be super careful with the people that we love and the choices that we make in this short amount of time that we have.

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Where to watch 41

Thanks for the suggestion, as always. Just watched. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Regarding the critiques of acting and directing, for example, perhaps we need to re-THiNC the rating scale. Yes, this movies lacks all of that, but packs every missing aspect into the mindjobness. The end result is an overall score that’s lacking for a movie that exactly what a lot of us are looking for here.

Thanks again.

Sure, it wasn’t the best movie I have brought you all… but I’m sorry, they can’t all be Primer! hahah.

@Taylor, and yet you took the time and effort to break the movie down for us, what with the infographics and all, such drive and dedication!

I found this movie amazingly touching; the ending was like an opposite version of a “dark sucker punch,” as I was CERTAIN that Aidan was destined to become Patient X – which is what I am sure was the author’s intent, what with the grandmother constantly going on about her husband (or was it Aidan’s father?) being bald and whatnot. So no, I certainly cannot raise my hand when it comes to the motel manager’s identity – I had no clue. I often can spot “plot twists” a mile away, but this one got me – and I’m so glad it did. Very powerful for an old cynic like me.

So, if you look at this NOT as a time travel movie, but as a parallel-universe traveling movie: All the universes exist, but they are offset by 1 day. Going into the hole just gets you to the next universe over, whose events occur 1 day later. Some Aidens enter a universe where the “local” Aiden hasn’t left yet, and sometimes Aiden enters one where Aiden already left. Ultimately, you end up with an infinite number of parallel universes where: some have no Aidens, some with 1 Aiden, and some with several Aidens. As for why he put the girlfriend in the hole (realizing she was already dead), once he closed the lid, and reopened it, the body would be gone. The “body” would never open the lid to exit, so the body would have shifted to an inaccessible place and never be a problem again.

In 41 Movie Timeline Aiden #2: When he goes to the diner and the person tells him he did a great job on ‘the paper’, it’s his University professor – commenting on how great his final exam was (from the start of the film). He mentions it again in the meeting with the other two professors in the apartment.

In 41 Movie Timeline Aiden #3: He takes Lauren’s body to the portal and she disappears. Because she’s dead. She can’t re-emerge 12 hours earlier because she wasn’t dead 12 hours earlier. She was alive and already living in that timeline.

Not sure if you will see this but I think you made a mistake unless its me that is mistaken but when goes back in time to when Aiden and the GF broke up, what we see isn’t them not breaking up but more so Aiden going back in time and thus we are seeing the earlier version of the relationship. When Old Aiden at the end tells Young Aiden to go to the hotel, I’m pretty sure that Aiden is still broken up with the GF. The decision to walk vs drive at the end was just a different decision that this Aiden made. At least that was my take on it, I really enjoyed this film and enjoyed reading your take on it.

Yeah, could be. I should ask the writer director… get his take, see if I screwed up or if it as a different earlier decision…

Fun fact: the exterior diner shots are of the Olympia Diner in Newington, Connecticut. Which completely messed up the movie for me since it’s supposed to take place in Australia

How many times did old Aidan have to witness the accident before he managed to prevent it? We see him at the beginning of the movie but Aidan and Lauren still crash. So I’m guessing he would have gone back to try something else, right? It seems that preventing the grandfather’s death and giving young Aidan a father figure growing up wasn’t enough to prevent the accident, so old Aidan had to keep tweaking the past. At the beginning of the movie Aidan asks Lauren if she still lives around there (near the hotel), and she says no, she moved away actually. But by the end of the movie Aidan is able to walk her home from the hotel. Did old Aidan finally figure out how to keep Lauren from moving? Was that just one of the tweaks he had to make?

So what do you think Lauren was about to say right before the accident that was so important?

Every no budget film should be this well done. One time where the concept really did carry the film to a successful conclusion despite lacking slickness.

I caught this film on Amazon Prime. I collect films, especially films with this sort of plot line; and, even when the film hasn’t been commercially released on DVD, the creator sometimes has promotional DVDs lying around that he’s willing to part with. I’ve had some luck in the past. Trouble is, it’s hard to find contact info for Glenn Trigg or Dark Epic Films.

Hey there Ann… Was that a question? I think maybe you are in hopes of getting a screener or DVD for this film but can’t get in contact with Glenn? Yes? No?

I happen to have Glenn’s email address I think. Can’t remember if we chatted over on Twitter, or via email, or phone. Ah, email. I see that I have his email address. If you’d like me to ask him a question on your behalf?

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41 Review – A Pretentious And Laborious Time Travel Movie

• Published on 23 April 2021
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41 tries to answer deep philosophical questions that arise from the existence of time travel , but unfortunately, much like the acting in this, the plot is amateurish at best. Rather than being the clever time travel movie they had hoped, it is more like a student project that goes on for far too long.

41 starts off with a narration that ponders the questions of life and how much we take for granted. We then switch to a philosophy class, in which the big topic of what happens after you die is being debated. Aidan, our protagonist, (played Chris Gibson ) is leaving the class when he runs into someone who looks exactly like him and warns him to not go to Heathscape Motel. However, after a tragic accident, with the lure of being able to stop it from happening, he rushes to the hotel to find a portal that allows him to go back to yesterday. 

I was intrigued by this as most time travel movies deal with a bigger timeline than today and yesterday, so I was hoping that we would have an intriguing time mystery. But it feels a very shallow attempt at being clever. With the voice-over at the beginning and the meta discussion, it is quite clear that this is what they were going for, a cerebral time travel film. But it lacks credible acting, dialogue and canon to actually achieve that. 

Rather than adding to the movie, this meta discussion of the movie, just ends up pointing out the flaws and all the things that 41 lacks. The tragic accident that prompts Aidan to go into time travel mode is something we have all seen before. If they had managed to take a new spin on it, this could be forgiven, but it does not go beyond the very basics. With a story that has proclaimed that it is not relying on any twists and special effects, it is only on the strength of the story that it can be judged.

41 manages to be a culmination of poor choices. I do not expect perfect acting in a low budget independent movie, but I expect it to be fairly tolerable. None of the scenes in this feel organic at all, as all the conversation is very stilted. In some scenes, it feels like the actors aren’t even trying to act and yet in other scenes, the actors over exaggerate every facial expression. This can be seen most clearly in the scenes involving the philosophy discussion and the police.

The philosophy scenes are where they decide to go meta talking directly about the film, but our protagonist says he’s writing a novel to sidestep weird questions. It would have been possible to add some nuance to this and flesh out any plot canon. But instead they go over very basic tenets of time travel, that anyone who has ever watched a movie involving time travel would be very familiar with. The experts in this after school discussion try so hard to act clever and profound, but their dialogue is incredibly moronic. There is no new ground covered here, and that sums up why 41 fails as a movie.

Then there are the police, who seem like caricatures of themselves. They are questioning Aidan regarding the accident, which they believe to be a crime, though nothing explains why they come to this conclusion. They try to act hard and menacing, but it just comes off as comical. Clearly added to create some friction in the plot, but it just leaves the audience perplexed.

However, even at this point, I was willing to give it a chance, if the ending had paid off. There is much emphasis on using this time travel for important reasons. But when Aidan devises a plan to change events (which ignores the rules they had set out in the meta discussion), it is just the same thing he was trying to do but with a different person in a different time.

There is no grand scheme to all of this, except self-indulgence even if he does end up saving someone. Which is what I feel is very much sums up, what 41 is like. Rather than being the clever time travel movie it thought it was, it comes across as pretentious, smug and shallow. 

Even without taking those flaws into consideration, the ending has to be the most convoluted way to solve a time travel paradox. There are many ways that this time travel dilemma could have been avoided, yet we go around in circles avoiding the obvious solution.

In fact, what is most frustrating is that Aidan is the cause of all the issues that happen and he repeats his mistakes over and over. 41 should have really been a 30 minute short, rather than the laborious 80 minutes it takes to make its point. Plus the motel, which is the epicenter of it all, could have no way to feature in its conclusion, as there is no way it is more than 50 years old. 

41 is full of glaring inconsistencies, bad dialogue and even worse acting, that makes this sci-fi movie a herculean struggle to finish. 

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Dance of the 41 ending explained – Can Amada free Ignacio of his sins?

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Dance of the 41, so it will contain major spoilers.

They say the incident of the Dance of 41 “invented” homosexuality, though all it did was shine a light on the issue. Nevertheless, it’s an absorbing study of the two leads—both being trapped by social norms and living miserable, tragic lives for nothing more than biology.

Netflix’s Dance of the 41- the ending explained

Dance of the Forty-One ( El baile de los 41 ) is based on the true story of Ignacio de la Torre (Alfonso Herrera), a congressman at the end of the 19th century who married the daughter of the president of Mexico, Porfirio Díaz (Fernando Becerril). He uses Amanda as his beard to lead a double life. One, as a rise to prominence as a political figure. The other, living out a secret life as a gay man during a time that could get you jailed or executed. When Ignacio is not trying to improve the lives of Mexico’s citizens through public service, he spends most of his nights in a secret society of homosexual men in the country’s capital. 

The film’s title refers to an illegal raid by the President’s armed guard. 41 gay men, 19 of them dressed as women, were arrested. These men were berated, humiliated, and shipped off to prisons to atone for their sins for being homosexuals. The problem was there were 42, and politics is power, so President Diaz took Ignacio off the list. The film ends with Ignacio as the only member left and a shot of him at the dinner table with his scorned wife, with tears in his eyes.

What happens next?

Ignacio is trapped by his country’s social norms and religious morals. While many viewed him as also a complex figure, mainly because he did use President Díaz’s daughter as a beard and for his political gain. Though, he was a product of his time. He had to live in hiding of not just shame but physical harm. Amada was also a product of her time and a political animal. Take the scene where she tries to “rid” him of his sins. It’s a period and culture steeped in religious values. 

After Ignacio and his society are discovered, he is pulled from the group to prevent a scandal for Diaz’s office. He is the only one left and now is a prisoner in his own home, with his wife now the warden. Now, with tears in his eyes, the metaphorical jail cell has been closed, and the key tossed away. He can no longer live the life he wanted, even in secret, or be with the man he loved.

What do you think of the ending of  Dance of the 41? Comment below with your interpretations and opinions.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Dance of the 41’ On Netflix, A Drama About The Queer Dance Party That Rocked 20th Century Mexican Society

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Who doesn’t love a good historical drama? From interpretations of Marie Antoinette and the British Monarchy to stories about the heroes of World War II and tales of U.S. presidents, there’s pretty much a ‘based on true events’ drama for just about everything.  Dance of the 41 – or El baile de los 41 –  now streaming on Netflix, shines a light on a pivotal moment in Mexican LGBTQ+ history – and can hang with the best of the prestige period dramas out there. 

DANCE OF THE 41 : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: Ignacio de la Torre (Alfonso Herrera) is marrying Amada Díaz (Mabel Cadena), the daughter of Mexico’s President Porfirio Díaz (Fernando Becerril). Ignacio’s career is on the rise, and with any luck, his new status as son-in-law of the president will help push him into new territory. As his marriage begins and his career takes flight, Ignacio is also falling in love – with another man. Ignacio brings Evaristo Rivas (Emiliano Zurita) into the fold with a group of queer men that meets regularly to party, have sex, and entertain one another. While it initially seems as though Ignacio may be able to keep his lives separate, increasing suspicion and snooping from wife Amada (who doesn’t hesitate to get her father and brother involved when she’s unhappy) results in his double life being exposed, even if only to her for the time being.

Torn between angry wife, jeopardized career, and dedicated lover, Ignacio struggles to make sense of his world and future. He continues to meet with the group of 42, but eventually, the party comes to a screeching halt. A police raid on a a special ball (at which many of the men are dressed in drag) sees its members – even those from the upper echelons of society – named and shamed in the public, with one exception: Ignacio. He might escape the worst of the punishment thanks to the status of his father-in-law, but the aftershocks of this event and the friends he lost may very well change his life – and Mexican history – forever.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Dance of the 41  boasts a lot of the historical drama beats we’ve become accustomed to as viewers, but a lot of it – both tonally and story-wise – is all its own. That said, it may appeal to period drama fans of titles like Portrait of a Lady on Fire ,  Anna Karenina (2012), and the plethora of 19th century royalty films out there.

Performance Worth Watching: The talented ensemble is what makes  Dance of the 41  so incredibly memorable, but Emiliano Zurita’s turn as Evaristo – or “Eva”, as Ignacio affectionately refers to him – is heartbreaking. It’s the kind of performance that sneaks up on you, like a flower bud slowly opening up before your eyes. Zurita’s screen presence is a uniquely quiet and emotional one, gently stealing our hearts just as he steals Ignacio’s. He doesn’t have a lot to say, but there is so much going on behind the eyes. Watching him play Eva immediately drove me to check out what other work he’s done.

Memorable Dialogue: There are a lot of rich, nuanced exchanges here, but I got a kick out of a brief moment of levity with Ignacio when he’s asked why there are rules: “For others to follow.”

Sex and Skin: Everyone is naked and there are all kinds of sex in Dance of the 41 ; uncomfortable wedding night sex, almost-sex on a piano bench, dimly-lit bathtub sex parties, post-horseback ride river frolicking, sensual, romantic sex, you name it.

Our Take: It may be set at the beginning of the 20th century, but the messages in  Dance of the 41  feel incredibly contemporary. This is a story that takes place 120 years ago, but its depiction of the way the LGBTQ+ community is treated and referred to by others is totally resonant. These are people who feel they have to hide away from the world to find their true happiness, and are forced to create families with people they don’t really love and put on faces for everyone else to see. Some of the film’s more moving moments come not from the central cast, but from the group of men donning gowns and jewelry and putting on shows, eyes filling up with tears as they express themselves freely – even if only for a moment.

Dance of the 41  is unafraid to get into the sexy stuff, but it never feels exploitative or gratuitous. All of the sex scenes and nudity feels in line with the rest of the film and its messaging, combing to create a memorable drama. Naked bodies aren’t just there to be titillating; as with every other shot in the film, it feels purposeful and essential to telling the bigger story at the film’s core. Director David Pablos tells this story with a beautiful complexity, balancing themes of homophobia, chauvinism, and misogyny with ease. Amada may be something of a villain in Ignacio’s story, but she’s also a victim in her own right – and the film doesn’t shy away from touching on these more delicate subjects.

The “dance of the 41” is said to have been the first time homosexuality was made visible in Mexico. I’ll admit that I knew absolutely nothing about this historic event prior to the film, but emerged feeling inspired to dig deeper and understand just how seminal it really was. Dance of the 41 feels like an especially timely film, and in addition to being a thoroughly affecting drama, it will likely also educate viewers.

Our Call:  STREAM IT. With its beautiful production design, stunning performances, and important story, Dance of the 41  could easily stand alongside some of our most prestigious historical dramas.

Should you stream or skip the Mexican LGBTQ+ historical drama #DanceOfTheFortyOne on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) May 14, 2021

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I continue to go down this hole. This multiverse, time-travel hole. And I blame the algorithm. You watch one sci-fi adjacent thing and you end up getting suggested movies like 41 . Which, frankly, I thought was a movie about Jackie Robinson. But, apparently, that’s called 42 . I can’t say I’m a fan of numbers-only-based titles like these. Especially when there’s no real significance to the number other than it’s the number on the hotel room in which this time-travel wormhole exists. At least with 42 , that’s Robinson’s uniform number. Or like the movie 10 refers to a scale of one to ten that everyone who has ever rated another human being understands. Which isn’t forgiving that practice, of course, but is giving it context.

Seemingly random title aside, the film itself clearly was trying something high-concept and relatively ambitious. It’s clear they watched the movie Primer , but decided that all the math and science stuff was for suckers. So they stripped all of that away and just kind of kept the core time-travel spine. Ostensibly a love story, our protagonist, Aidan, uses a hole in an Australian motel room floor to travel back in time twelve hours with each entry. Yes, literally a hole in a motel room floor. No time machine, no mystical time portal put there by an ancient civilization or alien culture. Nope, just an empty space in a crumby motel under a flap of cheap linoleum that definitely seems like it would be discovered by just about anyone sitting on the toilet in that room. But somehow isn’t. Because this film doesn’t bother with details like that. It’s super low-budget, and at times you feel every dollar not spent on it.

Going back to the concept, it feels like a couple students got into a dorm room and decided they wanted to make a time-travel movie. Then they did a little research, figured out they were going to settle on a certain theory and only then figured out the skin to put on it. And, yes, there’s nothing wrong with the theory here — basically every time the dude, Aidan, goes into the floor he appears in a new timeline twelve hours in the past. Not the same timeline he left from, but a brand new one. So if he’s in timeline/universe one and enters the hole, he can’t affect that same timeline/universe because he pops out in timeline/universe two. So his girlfriend he’s trying to save in timeline/universe one is unsavable. But his girlfriend in timeline/universe two could theoretically be saved if he prevents her death in timeline/universe two having gone back before her time of death. Timeline/universe one girlfriend will always die. As timeline/universe one Aidan continually jumps in the hole to travel from timeline/universe to timeline/universe to try to change future of a continuously alt version of his girlfriend. But that’s truly it. We don’t get much else other than this mechanic. The plot is the mechanism of the time travel. But, of course, at this point we’ve seen enough time-travel movies that we need something unique and surprising to build out the flesh of the narrative. It would be like making a war movie and us just getting a bunch of dudes running around a jungle shooting each other. Sure, it’s a war movie, but what is it I’m supposed to care about?

Ultimately this isn’t a bad movie. It’s just one that was missing something. Heart? Soul? Something that could have been fleshed out with a million bucks? Honestly, I’m not certain, as we’ll never get that version of the movie. And what we have feels like it’s missing something. A reason for being beyond what someone thought was a fun concept — and what someone thought they could pull off on a minuscule budget. So, yeah, it was fine for what it was. I suppose if you’re really into that DIY aesthetic, don’t mind some of the seams showing in your films and are a true everything-for-the-multiverse person, it could be worth 80 minutes of your time on a bus or plane. And may honestly be better on a smaller screen anyway.

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Nick O'Neill, an aspiring writer and actor, finishes writing a play just before his death in a Rhode Island club fire.

Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music

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41 movie review: Lal Jose offers intuitive film with Biju Menon

41 aka Nalpathiyonnu  movie opens with a scene where Biju Menon's character is seen meditating on air, literally! A curious crowd gathers around him. Minutes later, he is seen challenging the divine God.

The Lal Jose movie is more or less based on this aspect where the protagonist Ullas is an atheist and he has his own set patterns for life.

For instance, on the eve of his wedding, he goes to the bride's home and sets a few conditions. In yet another scenario, Ullas is seen helping an old woman at a medical camp, while his own old-age mother taunts him for not helping him.

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But his life takes a turn when he decides to reform Vavachi, who is also a party worker and an alcoholic.

Set between religious sentiments and political affiliations, director Lal Jose plays it safe not intruding too much into either of the two.

Like his usual movies, Lal Jose' narrative stamp is evident in this one too. The well-crafted story telling helps in keeping the audiences engaged.

If Biju Menon's last film Aadhyarathri  was a take on the argument of “what will the society say”, his 41  exhorts the society to change itself.

Though we know that he has strong convictions with regard to his life, we are never shown as to what made him so. Scripted by debutant PG Prageesh, the interesting twists and occasional fun-filled moments keep the film moving at a good pace.

Biju Menon, as usual, effortlessly fits into the character Ullas and entertains as well as make the audiences think with his amazing one-liners.

Equally laudable was Dhanya as Suma and debutante Saranjith, who impressed as Vavachi. Be it as a drunkard or as the goon and even during the emotional moments, he manages to deliver a neat performance. So was Nimisha Sajayan, who is seen both as young girl and a matured woman. With her dialogue delivery and mannerisms, Nimisha makes a wonderful impression.

What works in the movie is the slices of real life shots with realistic treatment. Bijibal has composed the music and lyrics is by Rafeeq Ahammed.

S Kumar is behind the camera and the cinematography is gripping. Take for instance a scene where Vavachi goes into the well to clean and suddenly slips down, the camera moves in circular pattern to give viewers the same feel.

41 aka Nalpathiyonnu also throws light on how crucial are the 41 days for a Ayyappa devotee.

With references to movies like Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala , 41 seems like an ode to the Malayalam cinema of 90's. This Biju Menon movie will entertain the audiences who love light-hearted films.

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Is the accountant worth watching breaking down the ben affleck movie's reviews & rotten tomatoes scores.

The Accountant is one of the most popular films streaming on Netflix despite stirring controversy and dividing critics upon its initial 2016 release.

• The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck, is a divisive film with a 52% critical score but a 76% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Critics are conflicted about the plot and portrayal of autism, but audiences praise Affleck's performance and original concept.
• Fans of Ben Affleck and mystery thrillers will find The Accountant intriguing, especially with a sequel on the horizon in 2025.

Ben Aflleck's 2016 movie The Accountant is currently trending on Netflix despite not receiving the greatest reviews. The action-crime conspiracy thriller stars the Academy Award-winning writer/director ( Good Will Hunting , Argo ) as Christian Wolff, a highly intelligent freelance accountant who also happens to be a math genius. Based on the premise alone, The Accountant appears to be a compelling and unique take on the action-thriller genre. However, by the end of The Accountant , critics were largely divided about the overall impact and quality of the Gavin O'Connor ( Warrior , The Way Back ) film .

The Accountant features an all-star cast led by Affleck, Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick ( Up in the Air ), Emmy nominee Jon Bernthal ( The Bear ), and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons ( Whiplash ). With The Accountant 2 confirmed to be directed by O'Connor and written by original screenwriter Bill Dubuque (creator of Ozark ) , The Accountant is a must-watch for people excited about the sequel's potential. The Accountant 2 began filming in March 2024 and is expected to be released sometime in 2025. Bernthal, Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson ( The Rings of Power ) are all confirmed to reprise their roles in The Accountant sequel.

The Accountant is available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

The Accountant Has A 52% Score From Critics On Rotten Tomatoes

The movie's rotten tomatoes audience score is 76%.

Audiences generally are not as concerned about the "messy" narrative as critics are and celebrate the original and intellectual concept of The Accountant.

The Accountant has received much more praise from audiences than it did from film critics upon its initial release. The action film earned a 76% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes while receiving just a 52% critical score upon its initial release. By comparison, The Accountant received nearly identical feedback on IMDb, with a user-generated IMDb rating of 7.3 and a Metascore of only 51 out of 100 . Many viewers applauded the film for combining some of the "genius" elements from Affleck's Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting and combining it with a bonafide action concept such as John Wick or Kingsman .

Critics of The Accountant , on the other hand, are mostly conflicted about the convoluted plot despite a great performance from Affleck. Audiences generally are not as concerned about the "messy" narrative as critics are and celebrate the original and intellectual concept of The Accountant , which is also paired effectively with heavy doses of intense thrills and action. The star of the production is undoubtedly Affleck, whose performance proves how capable he is as the lead protagonist, even in a complex and nuanced character. The Accountant , however, did draw some controversy around Affleck's portrayal of a man with autism .

Ben Affleck's $155M Movie Sequel Just Got A Lot More Exciting

The accountant's reviews criticize its autism portrayal & thriller plot, but praise ben affleck's performance, ben affleck shines in the main role despite a convoluted plot.

Some critics were initially excited by the prospect of a sequel to The Accountant that could tie up the loose ends of the original film.

Both critics and audiences mostly agree that Affleck delivers one of the best performances of his career in The Accountant , which likely has a lot to do with the modern interest surrounding a sequel to The Accountant some 8 years after the original's release. Critic Donald Clarke of Irish Times said of The Accountant , " The dubious composition of Affleck's character leaves a foul taste in the mout h." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said The Accountant "i s so entertaining it's hard not to wonder if Warner Bros. has a sequel in the works. Wouldn't be a bad idea. "

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone expertly sums up the most pervasive criticism of The Accountant , " Affleck plays a math wiz whose position on the autism spectrum allegedly makes him a perfect assassin. That notion is offensive on so many levels, especially in the service of such low-grade crime fiction, that it's painful to watch. " Outside of this glaring critique, some critics were dissatisfied with The Accountant's unfulfilled plotlines and predictable twists . On the other hand, some critics such as Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian were excited by the prospect of a sequel that could tie up the loose ends of the original film.

Ben Affleck's Upcoming Sequel To $155M Movie Is Very Surprising Given A 41-Year Career Trend

The accountant is worth watching for fans of ben affleck & mystery thriller movies, the movie is also worth a watch ahead of the accountant 2.

Audiences have called The Accountant original and compelling, while critics are split on the film's overall impact and quality.

If the simultaneous praise and controversy surrounding Affleck's performance is not enough to pique a viewer's interest, then the announcement of The Accountant sequel should reaffirm the integrity of the film's concept. Audiences have called The Accountant original and compelling, while critics are split on the film's overall impact and quality. For those who are generally interested in action thrillers such as the Bourne movies, the Equalizer films, and the John Wick franchise , The Accountant is certainly within that wheelhouse. Fans of Affleck will also likely enjoy his performance in The Accountant and can determine any offenses or criticisms themselves.

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Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff in the action thriller The Accountant, directed by Gavin O’Connor. A mathematical genius who connects more with his work than others, Christian freelances as a CPA for various criminal organizations to get by. However, when Christian starts to attract the unwanted attention of a Treasury agent, he attempts to go straight with a high-profile client – but his impeccable analytical skills uncover a financial discrepancy that dangerous people intend to keep hidden.

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“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in “The First Omen,” a stunning prequel to Richard Donner ’s timeless horror classic, “ The Omen ” (1976), about the evildoings of a demonic orphan adopted by a pair of unsuspecting Americans in London. And just like in the recent, Sydney Sweeney-starring religious gaslighting knockout “ Immaculate ,” it is a messy, skin-crawling business indeed, considering the life created is no other than that of the Antichrist.

“Two genre films that revel in supernatural Catholic horror? In this economy?,” you might rightfully ask. But allow this critic to assure you that you should consider yourself lucky for this contemporary time in movie theaters that gleefully slices up an abdomen and lets it hemorrhage as if it’s the bloody ‘60s or ‘70s out there. In that, if “Immaculate” is a fiendish wink towards the Giallos and nunsploitation flicks of the era, then the massively talented first-time feature director Arkasha Stevenson ’s “The First Omen” is both in the latter camp, and a first-rate paranoid thriller with a vintage tinge à la “ Rosemary’s Baby ”.

But first and foremost, “The First Omen” is proudly an “Omen” movie with all its symbolism, ‘70s vibes and earthy color palette and insidious scares intact; ones that will linger and multiply once you turn your lights off nightly. So if the idea of a legacy-prequel to a classic made you roll your eyes at first, think again. Not only does Stevenson, alongside her co-writers Keith Thomas and Tim Smith , remind us what made the line “It’s all for you, Damien!” so chillingly iconic back in 1976, they also instantly justify the need for an origin story for Damien, the Antichrist parented by an American diplomat and his wife, played by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick . (The new film’s homage to Peck is both wonderful and a cue that you can run straight back home and press play on Donner’s film for an experience as seamless as watching the first two “Halloween” movies back-to-back.)

The story is of Margaret Daino (a terrific Nell Tiger Free ), a fresh-off-the-boat American novitiate in Rome, tasked to work at an orphanage prior to taking her vows. She arrives at the Italian capital all wide-eyed and innocently excited as if she is the “ Suspiria ” dancer pirouetting into her dance academy. To Margaret, the wows of chastity and poverty she is about to take is her existential purpose, especially at a time when there is political unrest everywhere and people are turning their backs to the church. Still, she does let a fellow novitiate—the enthralling Maria Caballero’s Luz—dress her up in seductive clothes and take her to a hot dance club. Why cover their bodies and give up on adventures sooner than they need to, Luz believes. Perhaps a little tempted, and definitely too timid to challenge the confident authority of Luz, Margaret follows her lead, and wakes up alarmingly not recalling what happened with the guy she met the night before.

Elsewhere, Margaret immediately forms a bond with Carlita played by Nicole Sorace , an unforgettable newcomer we’ll hopefully hear more from, delivering a performance both vulnerable and terrifying. An eerie troublemaker like Margaret used to be during her problem-child days, Carlita gradually settles into Margaret affection and protection, something that doesn’t sit well with the orphanage’s elders like the strict and intimidating Sister Silva ( Sonia Braga ). The other elders in the film range from Bill Nighy ’s high-ranking Cardinal Lawrence and Ralph Ineson ’s Father Brennan, a character who looks like he just walked out of the set of the 1976 film and arrived at Stevenson’s prequel. Also in the mazy mix is Father Gabriel, a young priest Margaret befriends before finding herself stuck deep inside a bone-chilling conspiracy where no one can be trusted.

The most exciting thing about “The First Omen” is how Stevenson is an evident scholar of the supernatural horror genre, unmercifully playing with our perception and orchestrating an escalating sense of paranoia with ease. In that, rather than unsettling the audience with subtle, suggestive scares and overloading the story with trauma-based angles (a trap many of the recent genre outings sadly fall into), she gives us a first-rate motion picture in the old-school way: smartly agile, elegantly filmed and damn scary, with a stunning period production design and costuming, as well as touches of Neorealist mis-en-scène as immersive as they come.

But that doesn’t mean her film is sans contemporary meaning—far from it. In that, it’s a pleasant surprise how “The First Omen” plays like a more serious companion piece to “Immaculate” in spotlighting the hypocrisy of religion, one that rings timelessly true both in the narrative’s decades-old period and in today’s post Roe v. Wade world. In fact, the painful and political loss of one’s bodily autonomy is so top of mind in “The First Omen” that it unleashes onto the world one of the most shocking birth scenes of cinema … perhaps ever, confronting the audience with what that pain looks like, and how demonic it just might feel. The whole thing is so provocative, beautifully cinematic and in touch with its head-decapitating roots that you will forgive the slight drag in its final act as “The First Omen” creeps towards the day Peck and Remick would swaddle Damien.

It’s glorious and it’s all for us.

Tomris Laffly

Tomris Laffly is a freelance film writer and critic based in New York. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), she regularly contributes to  RogerEbert.com , Variety and Time Out New York, with bylines in Filmmaker Magazine, Film Journal International, Vulture, The Playlist and The Wrap, among other outlets.

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• Netflix's Scoop delves into the lead-up of the infamous 2019 Prince Andrew interview, boasting a stellar cast of real-world figures.
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Netflix's Scoop will explore the lead-up to one of the most notorious interviews with Britain's royal family, and it utilizes an excellent cast to pull off these real-world figures. The 2024 movie follows individuals like Sam McAlister, Emily Maitlis, Amanda Thirsk, and, of course, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, in the months before the famed 2019 interview on the BBC's Newsnight . This history-making moment was so damning that it's a wonder the duke ever allowed himself on the hot seat. Ultimately, it took the work of a miraculous group of women, all of whom have been brought to the screen in Scoop .

Scoop , which is directed by The Crown 's Philip Martin, is based on the true story of how an interview booker with Newsnight managed to create an on-screen moment that no one believed would ever happen. The story of the Netflix movie is based on the personal account of this booker, Sam McAlister, with a few dramatized features thrown in for an extra kick. Like any movie based on true stories , Scoop required a talented cast of actors to embody these real public figures . Rather than playing royals of the past, Scoop is set in the recent present, making these actors' performances all the more important.

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Piper plays Sam McAlister in Scoop , a former TV producer and writer for Newsnight who was in charge of finding talent for the show. It was because of McAlister that Prince Andrew gave his notable interview on Newsnight, leading the real-life character to write the autobiography Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interview , which inspired Netflix's 2024 movie.

Scoop releases on Netflix on April 5, 2024.

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In Scoop , Anderson plays famed British journalist and former BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis. She anchored on Newsnight until 2021 and famously interviewed Prince Andrew about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in November 2019.

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Prince Andrew announced following his 2019 interview that he would step away from his public royal duties.

Scoop Supporting Cast & Characters

Connor Swindells as Jae Donnelly - English actor Connor Swindells plays Jae Donnelly in Scoop , the real-world photographer who captured the image of Prince Andrew and Epstein walking together in Central Park. Swindells is best known for Sex Education (2019), Rogue Heroes (2022), and Barbie (2023).

Charity Wakefield as Princess Beatrice - England-born actor Charity Wakefield is best known for her roles in Sense & Sensibility (2008), The Player (2015), and Wolf Hall (2015). She plays Princess Beatrice in Scoop , the daughter of Prince Andrew.

Lia Williams as Fran Unsworth - Lia Williams, born in England, is an actor known for her roles in The Foreigner (2017), Archive (2020), and Living (2020). She plays Fran Unsworth in Netflix's Scoop , who, at the time of Prince Andrew's interview , was the BBC's director of news.

Scoop (2024)

Inspired by real events, Scoop is the inside account of the tenacious journalism that landed an earthshattering interview - Prince Andrew's infamous BBC Newsnight appearance. From the tension of producer Sam McAlister’s high stakes negotiations with Buckingham Palace, all the way to Emily Maitlis’ jaw dropping, forensic showdown with the Prince, Scoop takes us inside the story, with the women who would stop at nothing to get it. To get an interview this big, you have to be bold.