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Film Review: ‘Time Lapse’

Discovering a neighbor's photographic time machine complicates life for three young L.A. flatmates in this clever fantasy thriller.

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'Time Lapse' Review: A Clever Fantasy Thriller

The protagonists of “Time Lapse” find their ordinary young lives rocked by discovery of a machine that can somehow take photos of their apartment 24 hours hence — a find they exploit to modest benefits, but which proves their undoing. This clever, small-scale fantasy thriller has played numerous festivals over the past year, picking up numerous awards en route. It opened at Hollywood’s Arena Theater and launches on VOD May 15. Theatrical exposure will likely be modest, but the pic should continue to accrue appreciation from brainier genre fans via home format sales.

Bespectacled Finn (Matt O’Leary) is a painter experiencing the visual-artist equivalent of writers’ block. Meanwhile he’s thinly supporting himself by being building manager of the bungalow-style apartment complex where he lives with devoted, gainfully employed aspiring writer g.f. Callie (Danielle Panabaker) and their gambling-prone bartender flatmate Jasper (George Finn). She is a more cheerful sustainer of their living arrangement than the boys — certainly sullen Finn — perhaps deserve.

When older tenant Mr. Bezzerides is late on his rent, they investigate, only to find his dank apartment abandoned. More disturbingly, they find an entire wall of Polaroid-style photos he’d shot of their own picture-windowed living room directly opposite. Strangest of all, there’s a large mechanical gizmo there which, they soon suss, takes “instant” snaps of that voyeuristic perspective … a day in advance of actual events. They also find a journal in which Bezzerides worried he’d foreseen his own death — and duly discover his desiccated corpse in a basement storage room.

“He broke the cardinal rule: Don’t f— with time,” Jasper says. But he’s also the first to “consider the possibilities” inherent in their late neighbor’s invention, not excluding financial benefits from knowing the next day’s race results. Despite some misgivings, the trio are quickly seduced down a rabbit hole in which each 24-hour period brings greater rewards from foreseeing the future—including Finn breaking his creative block by already knowing what he’ll paint. But they’re also presumably locked into making decisions that will lead to the photos’ sometimes discomfiting depictions of their immediate future.

This generates increasingly complex logistical dilemmas and interpersonal conflicts. Meanwhile, incautious Jasper’s newfound gambling success attracts interest from scary bookie Ivan (Jason Spisak) who is hardly shy about threatening their lives if they don’t bend their bizarre windfall to his will. The property’s nice-guy security guard, Big Joe (Amin Joseph), also grows suspicious of too many suspicious activities.

A first feature for helmer Bradley King and co-scenarist BP Cooper (though the latter has produced several indies), “Time Lapse” works due to both their escalating pileup of well-thought-out complications and credible character psychologies nicely communicated by expert performances. (The disintegration of Callie and Finn’s relationship provides a primary emotional undercurrent to the narrative’s principal fantastical/suspense thread.) A few late twists strike the first generic note of narrative/character contrivance, but nonetheless deliver a satisfyingly ironical denouement.

Very well crafted within a modest scale, the pic never feels claustrophobic despite largely being confined to the protagonists’ flat. All tech/design contributions are savvy but unobtrusive, never wresting attention from an ingenious narrative measured out in unhurried yet always-engaging terms.

Reviewed online, San Francisco, May 12, 2015. Running time: 104 MIN.

Production: An XLRator Media release of a Royal Pictures and Uncooperative Pictures production. Produced by BP Cooper, Rick Montgomery. Co-producer, Sarah Craig.
Crew: Directed by Bradley King. Screenplay, King, BP Cooper. Camera (color, HD), Jonathan Wenstrup; editor, Tom Cross; music, Andrew Kaiser; music supervisor, Andrea von Foerester; production designer, Traci Hays; costume designer, Mishka Trachtenberg; art director, Kaz Yamaguchi; set decorator, Abra Brayman; sound, Chris Hall; supervising sound editor, David Barber; re-recording mixer, Gonzalo Espinoza; assistant director, Pette Fitz; casting, Lauren Bass, Jordan Bass.
With: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak, Sharon Maughan, David Figlioli, Judith Drake.

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Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to de... Read all Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop. Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

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If you were presented with the opportunity to see into your future, would you take advantage of it? What kind of effect would this knowledge have on the way you live your life day-to-day? How would your interactions with your friends change? Would these changes be positive or negative . . . and for how long would you have control over what comes next?

These exact questions confront friends and roommates Finn (Matt O’Leary, “ The Lone Ranger ”), Callie (Danielle Panabaker, “ Piranha 3DD ”), and Jasper (George Finn, “Just Before I Go”) in Bradley King’s Time Lapse . Working as building managers for an apartment complex, they help tenants with everyday tasks like toilet malfunctions and plant watering, and become concerned when one of the tenants disappears. Mr. Bezzerides is late on his rent, his car is collecting parking tickets, and his newspapers haven’t been brought inside. When they enter his apartment, they discover a wall covered with Polaroid pictures of their own living room, each documenting their activities for days and days on end, including days when the room was empty. There’s also a strange contraption they realize is a giant camera pointing out the window, and they notice a new Polaroid sticking out of it — a photo of their empty living room with a knocked-over coat rack in the frame. Confused, they decide to check out Mr. B’s storage unit, hoping to find clues about the camera; instead, they discover the burnt corpse of the missing man. Completely unnerved and frightened, they return to their apartment to determine their next steps. When Callie accidentally knocks over the coat rack, and they realize the camera is actually taking pictures of scenes 24 hours into the future, their predicament becomes much more complex.

Jasper, a compulsive gambler, convinces his roommates to stick out the situation to see what develops (pun intended), and, for a while, things go swimmingly: Finn, a struggling painter, regains his inspiration as well as his affection for Callie; Jasper begins making steady, successful bets with his bookie, and Callie finds some new self-confidence as Finn’s muse. But, alas, things turn sour as Jasper’s increasing paranoia and unending winning streak tips off his bookie. Ivan (Jason Spisak, “ Piranha 3D ”) appears with his muscle Marcus (David Figlioli, “ I Know Who Killed Me ”) in tow and forces Jasper to reveal the source of his success. Ivan takes over control of the camera, and the roommates’ lives snowball towards chaos.

What’s refreshing about Time Lapse is its focus on the psychological aspect of forbidden knowledge and the impact on a close-knit friendship. Once the roommates discover the secret of the Polaroids, it’s hard for them to resist the temptation, as it probably would be for anyone. What’s especially interesting is how tangled their control over the situation really becomes. They make a pact early on, jokingly at first, that they won’t break the cardinal rule of time travel — don’t try to change the future. However, as the pictures become more and more foreboding, they struggle with the obligation of recreating the scenes depicted in the Polaroids. The obvious solution seems to point towards making different decisions in order avoid the predicted events, but then they remember Mr. B, the dead tenant, whom they believe tried to change his future and was punished.

The hows and whys of the future-telling camera’s function are irrelevant to the plot, and the story and acting are engaging enough to foster acceptance of this fact. While some of the early photo situations are pretty predictable, the tension created as the threesome gets closer and closer to picture-time each evening is actually rather effective. There are times you think they just won’t make it in time, or that one roommate will ruin the future for the other two. Additionally, as the film continues, and the psychological tension gets stronger and stronger, the resulting emotional explosions don’t always come in the forms you’d expect.

Written by BP Cooper in collaboration with writer/director Bradley King, Time Lapse is a pleasant surprise and festival darling of a small-budget film. The story ponders intriguing questions about the nature of fate and free will, and while we’ve all seen many films (both dramatic and comedic) that warn against trying to change the future, they don’t all postulate that we may be intentionally bending our free will to match our fate. Are the roommates actually at the mercy of fate, or is fear driving them to fulfill events they truly could change if they tried?

Overall, Time Lapse takes a fairly simple premise and stretches it into a film that works on a number of levels — believable interactions between characters, simple-but-engaging situations that build tension, and a great little ending that’s pretty satisfying. The film may not be hugely ground-breaking, but what its developed is certainly worth a look.

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Time Lapse isn’t afraid to jump into this debate, and wastes little time doing so. The film opens in the apartment of Finn ( Matt O’Leary ) and Jasper ( George Finn ), whose ordinary lives seem entirely pleasant (if somewhat financially lean). A painter struggling with a serious case of artist’s block, Finn spends most of his time staring at blank canvasses between maintenance calls to units within his apartment complex. The on-site property manager for his little community, Finn seems mostly happy, if a little frustrated with life, when the movie kicks off.

This happiness is buoyed by an absolute 10 of a girlfriend, Callie ( Danielle Panabaker ), who is gorgeous, understanding, and supportive. For Christ’s sake: there is a quick cutaway shot early on that shows the woman making and delivering sandwiches to Finn and Jasper whilst the two are playing video games without her. Yet this cozy little utopia is shaken up when Finn learns that their neighbor, just across the courtyard, hasn’t been seen for some time. When they go to check in on the guy, Callie, Finn, and Jasper are floored by their discovery of a camera pointed at their living room window, one that seems to be able to take snapshots of events a day before they transpire.

About the size of a VW Bug, the camera is bolted into the foundation, and has more or less been abandoned by its owner/inventor when Finn and company come upon it. Jasper, a borderline degenerate gambler and pill fiend, is certain that the camera is the answer to all his prayers, and immediately sees the value of keeping the thing and, most importantly, keeping it secret. Finn is more ambivalent, yet when he sees a completed painting in the next day’s picture, his attitude changes, and he and Callie both come on board.

One of the best things Time Lapse has going for it is its pacing, and economy of storytelling. The movie is director Bradley King’s first full-length feature, yet one wouldn’t be able to guess that based solely on the offered product. The story progresses about as you might expect, with fast money and success falling on the heads of our main characters not long after the future-camera comes into their lives, only for jealousy, suspicion, and thoughts of betrayal to sneak into the cinematic stew. Yet none of these developments feels forced or contrived; the plot offers a number of surprising twists that all seem organic in their development, and keep the audience on its toes without taxing their suspension of disbelief all that much.

Sure, when watching this flick, a person might want to scream, “Just break the damn camera. Destroy it! It’s evil!” Yet much of this comes from conditioned hindsight born out of a multitude of Twilight Zone episodes that have explored this territory before. The characters in Time Lapse don’t enjoy this advantage, and the movie is engaging enough that thoughts on subjects like these don’t surface all that often.

If there’s one critical takeaway, it’s that there wasn’t a lot of time devoted to character development. A plot-driven film with plenty to offer in that department, Time Lapse lapses on explorations of Finn and Callie’s relationship, as well as the friendship of Jasper and Finn. Spending a bit more time fleshing out who these people are, why they care about each other, and (most importantly) why the audience should care for them would have rounded out the film, and really put it into a class all its own.

Still, this is little more than a trifle, and is about the only thing that could have made Time Lapse any better. Crisp dialogue, thoughtful cinematography, convincing acting, a sharp score, and a wildly entertaining concept keep this one clicking right along. Currently playing at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival , you could do a hell of a lot worse than Time Lapse . In fact, in this reviewer’s opinion, anyway, if looking for a great sci-fi suspense flick, it would be difficult to do much better.

“Obvious Child” is the debut novel of Warren Cantrell, a film and music critic based out of Seattle, Washington. Mr. Cantrell has covered the Sundance and Seattle International Film Festivals, and provides regular dispatches for Scene-Stealers and The Playlist. Warren holds a B.A. and M.A. in History, and his hobbies include bourbon drinking, novel writing, and full-contact kickboxing.

Tagged as: Bradley King , Danielle Panabaker , George Finn , Matt O’Leary , siff , siff 2014

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so the camera shows a photograph 24 hours into the future. the characters are not time traveling, so how are they writing and posting the race results to the window for the camera to take the picture? seeing that the betting and making lot’s of money is a so integral to the story, this plot hole is too large to excuse. and what! after seeing the dead camera inventor for 7seconds they deduce that they have to reenact the photos regardless of what they depict or they might die? the character were completely unrealistic and malleable merely to fulfill the plot. completely ridiculous movie. the only redeeming quality was that the camera looked awesome.

Howard, you do realize you answered your own question? They get a photo from the future, you see Jasper writing out the information from the photo on the piece of paper before he sticks it to the window. The logic of the movie is intact and makes perfect sense.

But yes I agree with your comment about the dead inventor, it’s a leap but if you don’t buy into the premise of the movie then you won’t go with it. At least the idioticness of that idea they comment on when the old lady comes along.

Your opinion is in the minority, most people love it and it has won a ton of awards but that’s the beauty of movies, we don’t all agree :-).

Totally agree that Time Lapse was a fun, thrill ride of a temporal paradox movie and a worthy addition to the increasingly popular genre. All the actors were great, and while the Jasper character put a real spanner in the works, he was still probably necessary to inject a bit of urgency into the story. Re Howard’s comment above, the camera takes photos 24 hours in the future, so they simply receive that data from their future selves as in a bootstrap paradox. Anyone wanting an explanation of the movie can find one here http://www.astronomytrek.com/time-lapse-2014-explained/

The movie was fantastic when it came to handling the time paradoxes and the causal loops in general. The movie was terrible when it came to handling the characters in the plot. Each of them were regular people, with regular lived and turn out to be stone cold killers in a week’s time. This summarizes the plotholes: http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!Time-Lapse-2014-Explained/ce4s/56adca020cf231794c6533ed

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2014 Directed by Bradley King

Once you see the future, you can't look away.

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Danielle Panabaker Matt O'Leary George Finn John Rhys-Davies Amin Joseph Jason Spisak Sharon Maughan David Figlioli Judith Drake Mark C. Hanson

Director Director

Bradley King

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Jonathan Betzler

Producers Producers

Rick Montgomery Sarah Craig B.P. Cooper Kim Carney

Writers Writers

Bradley King B.P. Cooper

Casting Casting

Lauren Bass Jordan Bass

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

Jonathan Wenstrup

Lighting Lighting

Jeremy Kerr

Production Design Production Design

Art direction art direction.

Kaz Yamaguchi

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Abra Brayman

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Charles Roxburgh Ikuo Saito Daniel Barone David Templin David Shorey Jeffrey Hebner Troy Taroy

Stunts Stunts

Christopher Bradley

Composer Composer

Andrew Kaiser

Sound Sound

David Barber

Costume Design Costume Design

Mishka Trachtenberg

Makeup Makeup

Kathryn Fernandez

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Review by Kat ★★★

A movie about a camera that takes photos of the future. Feels like a modern twilight zone episode. This is a low budget sci fi, with a twist ending that's smarter than I was expecting. But really terrible characters and bad acting. Overall though an enjoyable time travel romp.

-Finns art is so bad. And hes a loser douche.

-Callie, honey. You can have anyone. Why are you with this loser who has no interest in marrying you?

-Jasper you just suck period.

-Worst bookie ever.

Review by DirkH ★★★½ 3

Films dealing with time or time travel are often best served by a neat, closed circle. And Time Lapse manages to do just that.

With a premise that is very interesting, it starts off quickly by confronting our (arguably generic) main characters with the central conundrum. What if you had a machine that took pictures of the future? Our three protagonists behave like you'd expect them to and the basic plotline follows the expected path. What it cleverly does though is use the full potential of its premise by constantly having its characters doubt about just how much is predestined and if it's possible to break their own circle.

Time Lapse is a clever, extremely well paced film that ties up its loose ends really well, leading to a conclusion that fits perfectly. Definitely recommended.

Review by ChandraKanth❄ ★★★½ 1

Starts of very plain and gets complex gradually. It goes deep into character study than focusing on time travel. Ending is very much unexpected.

Review by Steph_h ★★★★ 2

Tonight none of this will matter

A unique spin on time travel even if some of the ways in which things start to get convoluted feel a little familiar this is a twisted good trip .. crime, love, drugs and the worlds fanciest future Polaroids ..

Review by Sienna D ★★★½

1. Does this make sense? 2. Does it even matter?

Short answers: 1. I honestly don't know. 2. Hell no it doesn't matter!

This is a great ride with a fantastic ending. I don't know what the budget was for this flick (I can't imagine it was much at all) but they did a really good job of making their little world very convincing and wildly suspenseful.

Review by Matt ★★★★ 1

"Don't fuck with time."

Like other indie films, this one was only brought to my attention because of rave reviews. The trailer looked pretty decent as well. Today, it popped up on one of the sites I regularly go to, so I decided "why not?"

Three friends, one of whom is the building manager, inadvertently discover a machine invented by a scientist. They find out that it takes pictures of their apartment 24 hours in advance. At first, they're worried and scared, then they use it for their own personal gains. However, the cardinal rule of time creeps up on them and they realize that their lives are all now in danger.

I wonder if this came out online around…

Review by Matt ★★★½

Smartly written low-fi sci-fi. I know this sounds cheesy but it was clearly made with more in the way of love for the genre and dedication from its team than it was with a large sum of cash. Everyone involved was obviously really committed, it showed.

These sorts of clever little movies that have fantastic concepts and execute them so well despite those financial restrictions reaffirm my faith in cinema and what it's possible to achieve, I truly love to see it and just wish more film fans and benefactors would.

Review by Am Y ★★★★½ 7

I hope Bradley King and B.P. Cooper team up again to make another movie because they did a fantastic job with this one. It's very difficult to make a movie involving time be coherent and logically impeccable, but they managed to do just that. On top of a clever script, there's tons of suspense and intrigue, a neat, unexpected ending, and very decent acting from all the leads. I was glued to the screen throughout, palms sweating. This small indie number could put tons of high-budget blockbusters to shame.

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was going to see this movie but last night I found a review from future Sweet T and it's shit

Review by Jacob ★★½ 1

This movie has a super interesting concept and a nice little twist. You know I’ll go crazy for a time movie, the problem is the acting is horrible and makes me dislike all the characters. Except for Danielle Panabaker, shout out to Stuck in the Suburbs, Read it and Weep, and Sky High.

Review by -ˋˏ 𝐀𝐧𝐚 ˎˊ- ★★★ 2

girl what??? i think I'm either too dumb to understand half the things that happened or every person in this film had literally zero brains cells. so, okay you find a time machine that shows pictures of the future, then you try to find a way to pose for those said pictures everyday. nah that doesn't make sense because if it's the future then it's going to happen regardless of what you do... and don't even remind me of the last part/ending... i was actually hooked on until the "twist" 😭

Review by a ☭ ★★★½

Ok real talk everyone I hate movies that confuse me or make me feel dumb so this was the best movie ever made up until those final 7 or so minutes I had such a nice grasp of what was going on but then they just had to fuck my life up I hate time travel so much kill me

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Review: ‘Time Lapse’ an unsettling trip to the future

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A sci-fi thriller with hints of Danny Boyle’s 1994 “Shallow Grave,” the new film “Time Lapse” revolves around three roommates grappling with the ethics and side effects of a fortune-telling contraption.

Artist-housing complex superintendent Finn (Matt O’Leary) is asked to check on a resident who hasn’t been seen in a week. Along with his live-in girlfriend, Callie (Danielle Panabaker), and roommate Jasper (George Finn), he discovers a customized camera aimed directly at their living room window from the missing resident’s home. It regularly ejects a Polaroid showing activities taking place exactly 24 hours in the future.

The roommates later find the missing man’s corpse in a storage unit but keep it a secret so they can make the most of his invention.

With the photos as their guide, Jasper bets on dog races and Finn paints by number. It’s just a matter of time before the minatory bookie, Ivan (Jason Spisak), gets leery.

Why doesn’t Jasper play the lottery instead? Why is the camera aimed at their window, of all places? Good questions. But director Bradley King and his co-writer, B.P. Cooper, manage to overcome their shoddy premise as the plot progresses assuredly and persuasively.

As with “Shallow Grave,” suspicion and paranoia brew as the relationships among the roommates disintegrate. The biggest surprise, though, is how the story continues to unsettle after it ends.

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“Time Lapse.”

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Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes.

Playing: Arena Cinema, Hollywood. Also on VOD.

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Time Lapse (2014) Explained

January 31, 2015 James Miller Sci-Film Reviews 69

In a quiet residential complex, caretaker manager Finn (Matt O’Leary) together with his girlfriend Callie (Danielle Panabaker) and best friend Jasper (George Finn) investigate the apartment of a dead scientist, only to discover a mysterious camera pointed directly at their living room window capable of taking photos 24 hours into the future.

Rather than calling the police, the housemates use the device to make their wildest dreams come true, but after exploiting the camera for personal gain they soon find themselves blindly recreating whatever future the photos show them, or else risk the perils of messing with time, in this paradox-filled sci-fi thriller.

Time Lapse movie plot

As part of his research, the dead scientist (Mr Bezzerides) set his strange device to take a photo of the housemates’ lounge at 8 pm each night, but one day when apparently tinkering with his camera and viewing events even further forward he is horrified to see a Polaroid taken 2 weeks into the future appearing to depict his own death. The photo shows a blood-stained window, the scientist’s hat on the sofa, and a painting of a thorium canister, and whilst investigating his basement lock-up where the thorium is kept he accidentally causes the accident which leads to his own demise. The whole story we subsequently see in Time Lapse is the series of events that ultimately lead up to that photo depicting the scientist’s apparent murder.

Meanwhile, we get to see the trio of friends use the camera for their own selfish purposes, including Finn using the photos to overcome artist’s block and reveal his next future painting, Jasper making bundles of cash betting on the following day’s racing results, and Callie earning enough money to give up her waiting job and focus on becoming an author. We later find out Callie had discovered the device also takes another photo at 8 am and after removing all the photos on the scientist’s wall showing her secret affair with Jasper months earlier, she then starts using the 8 am morning photo shoot to communicate with herself, and send/messages in order to shape events and rekindle her relationship with Finn.

Temporal paradoxes in Time Lapse

In any story involving backward time travel , we can expect a number of bizarre temporal paradoxes to occur. In the case of Time Lapse, these involve a series of daily bootstrap or ontological paradoxes in which information, rather than a person, is sent back in time to create a circular loop in which the information does not appear to have a discernible point of origin.

Examples in the movie include Finn’s paintings, which he create only after seeing them in a future photo showing them already painted, raising the question where did the inspiration for the paintings come from in the first place? Other bootstrap paradoxes include Callie’s messages to herself, such as reminding herself to knock over the coat rack for the photo because she saw a future photo with the coat rack lying on the floor, an idea that has no discernible point of origin. Jasper’s gambling results are a further example of a bootstrap paradox as in true chicken-and-egg fashion the camera provides all the results, and Jasper then simply stands in front of the camera with the results written on a board before writing them down and sending the information back to himself 24 hours earlier.

Is there an element of Self-fulfilling Prophecy?

There also appear to be strong elements of self-fulfilling prophecy in the story, with the characters receiving a photo from 24 hours in the future (prophecy) before setting about fulfilling the scene in the exact same way as shown.

Perhaps, Mr. Bezzerides provides the most extreme example of a self-fulfilling prophecy as he thinks he sees his own death two weeks into the future before mailing the photo to his colleague Dr. Heidecker and setting off to inadvertently cause the very accident which kills him. In fact, Time Lapse appears replete with numerous examples of predestination paradoxes as at no point in the movie do the characters ever seem to deviate from the future events which are shown to them.

Furthermore, when Callie does try to stick a ‘DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE WINDOW’ (by Finn at 8 am) note on the window at the end of the story, the message falls off thus ensuring the future depicted in the photo of the scientist’s apparent murder remains exactly the same.

Can they change the future?

Early on in the movie, Callie explains to Finn and Jasper her belief that failing to obey the events shown in the photos would ultimately lead to their ending up like Mr. Bezzerides. As she describes whilst sketching her timeline drawing:

“The camera spits out a photo of us in the future. Then we go about our day making a series of decisions that lead up to that moment. But, if we deviate from those decisions, then this photo never happens, which means us, the people who saw the original photo can’t go forward because our futures don’t exist anymore [glancing over at Mr. Bezzerides hat on the stand].”

As a result, the trio of friends use the device to receive photos from themselves 24 hours into the future before passing on the same message to their past selves 24 hours in the past to keep the timeline from being altered. In other words, Callie promotes the idea that they cannot change the future and if they don’t perform the actions seen in the photo then they will either end up incinerated like Mr. Bezzerides, or simply cease to exist on their own timeline.

However, we later discover Callie believes no such thing and had been using the 8 am photo shoot to pass messages to herself in order to manipulate events and salvage her relationship with Finn. She’d also switched around some of the 8 pm photos shown to Finn and Casper, and at the end of the movie after the Jasper/Finn fight, sends a photo message to herself with the instruction to now swap the affair photo with one showing the charades night (SWAP PHOTO TO CHARADE NIGHT). As a result, while the evening 8 pm timeline appears to follow a predetermined and inevitable pattern, the morning 8 am timeline appears flexible, full of possibilities and subject to manipulation by Callie, the real manipulator of events in the movie.

Can Callie actually change the past?

Throughout the movie, Callie had been using the device to receive and send photos to herself at 8 am so as to manipulate the timeline and fix her relationship with Finn. Examples include messages such as KISS JASPER TOO LONG, GO WITH FINN TO CAR, DON’T FORGIVE FINN, etc.

Near the end of the movie Finn catches Callie at the window at 8 am sending a message to herself saying SWAP PHOTO TO CHARADE NIGHT, KILL JASPER TO SAVE FINN, resulting in Finn feeling betrayed and wanting to destroy the machine and end his relationship with her. However, Callie continues to believe she can change her present by changing the past, and after killing Finn to stop him walking out on her subsequently tries to change the ‘8 pm’ police marked crime scene’ photo by sticking a note on the window saying DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE WINDOW.

In other words, she tries to prevent Finn from finding out about her 8 am photo shoot as she believes this will prevent the argument which resulted in Finn trying to walk out on her. Callie’s assumption is that by causing the past to change, the present will adjust accordingly, and presumably the day she had just experienced would turn out differently.

Is it a revised or predetermined timeline?

On the face of it, Callie’s belief she can change the past seems to be a scientific misconception because as far as we witness none of the events in Time Lapse were ever altered from those shown in the photos, and if her plan of sticking the note on the window had worked it clearly would have resulted in the photo showing Mr. Bezzerides’ apparent death being changed to one slightly different from the one seen by his colleague, Dr. Heidecker. Nevertheless, Callie seems convinced that changing events is possible, for instance when she swapped the ‘police tape’ photo for the one of Jasper and her having sex, or when she tells Finn “It’s gonna be OK. We won’t remember any of this tomorrow”.

On the one hand, Callie’s belief that she can alter her own timeline doesn’t seem to be borne out by anything that is shown in the movie, and it is just as likely that had she succeeded in changing events she would probably have created an alternate timeline where she was not caught at the window, and Finn and her did escape together. In her own timeline, however, Finn would still be dead and there would still be an extremely messy crime scene for the police to investigate.

At the same time, it’s equally possible the version of events we see in Time Lapse are only the ones showing Callie’s successful changes and, unlike many other time travel movies , Callie’s repeats and alterations that she successfully managed to make are not shown. In other words, we are not shown Callie’s alterations which cause a ripple effect and reset the preset. As to whether events were predetermined in Time Lapse, or if the photos could be changed, director Bradley D. King in a revealing interview with Taylor Holmes said:

“In spite of Heidecker’s explanation, Jasper obviously believes there is no way to alter the photos. Finn seems to have come around to the possibility that things can be altered, but only out of desperation, and it seems to me that when he packs that suitcase he’s still not 100% sure what might happen. And then of course Callie obviously is convinced that things can be changed, which probably came out of her experience of doing things behind the scenes and feeling a sense of empowerment from that. But who’s right? I think the question is definitely more interesting than any answer I could give. In my own imagination I have definitely explored both ways, and both are interesting.”

Timeline of events in Time Lapse

1: Callie discovers Mr Bezzerides dead inside his apartment and an unusual camera which takes photos 24 hours into the future at 8 pm everyday.

2: After Jasper suggests that the trio (Callie, Finn, Jasper) use the camera to win money gambling, the first photo produced shows the next day’s racing results, as well as a new painting by Finn. Wary of the fate which befell Mr. Bezzerides, they then assume they must now enact all the events depicted in the photo or else risk annihilation.

3: The trio hide Mr Bezzerides’s death from the complex’s security guard, Big Joe.

4: One week later they receive a photograph of Callie kissing Jasper.

5: Jasper’s gangster bookie Ivan discovers the camera and forces the trio to pose for photos showing him which races and runners to gamble upon. After seeing a photo of a skull and crossbones painted onto one of Finn’s works, Jasper interprets this as a warning and while the trio are being threatened by Ivan, subsequently manages to kill him and his henchman Marcus before dumping their bodies off in Mr. Bezzerides’s storage unit.

6: Dr. Heidecker shows up after receiving a photograph of her colleague, Mr. Bezzerides, and his hat placed on a sofa near the bloodstained window of the trio’s apartment. The photo depicts the events scheduled for the following day, but Jasper deals with the situation by killing Dr. Heidecker.

7: Finn discovers a photograph showing Callie and Jasper having sex which he assumes will take place the following night, and then tries to argue and stop the event from happening.

8: Jasper attacks and locks Finn inside Mr. Bezzerides’s storage unit, after which Finn manages to escape and threatens to destroy the camera. Jasper almost kills Finn, but Callie rescues him by bashing Jasper’s head in.

9: Finn catches Callie sending an 8 am photo to herself with the messages SWAP PHOTO TO CHARADE NIGHT, and KILL JASPER TO SAVE FINN. Callie then comes clean and admits that she had been using the hitherto secret 8 am photo shot to shape events and rescue her relationship with Finn.

10: Finn determines to destroy the camera, but Callie subsequently shoots him resulting in the blood splatter seen in the original photo Mr. Bezzerides sent to Dr. Heidecker (taken sometime between 8 am and 8 pm but not at those specific times). Having already taken an 8 am photo, Callie then tries to change the 8 pm photo which should show a police-taped crime scene, with one of her holding a sign stating DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE WINDOW.

11: Big Joe shows up and discovers the murdered bodies of Jasper and Finn, and so arrests Callie. While she is led away her message falls off the window indicating the camera will not record the note, events will not be altered, and she will go to jail for multiple murders. The movie ends with the initial scene depicted in the photo sent to Dr. Heidecker unchanged.

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Also, I don’t believe the premise is possible from even a philosophical perspective (obviously it’s not literally possible to have a camera that sees into the future) unless it is IMPOSSIBLE for each picture not to be created. This suggests that it was predetermined that they would look at the pictures and act accordingly. For all the months the camera had functioned w/o their knowledge, events transpired causing each image to come true. The whole movie, they needn’t have been worried about “fucking with time” because it doesn’t seem feesible that it would even be possible to make it so that the picture doesn’t come true. This brings up larger issues of free will because obviously they could have flown to china after seeing the first picture and that picture wouldn’t have come true, but if u believe in determinism (which is the only real way this movie makes any sense), it was already determined that they wouldn’t do that

I still don’t understand how u could possibly change the present by changing the past. It’s not like everything would just *poof* change. Callie should have known if she was successful in her note she never would have killed jasper or her boyfriend in the first place because it would have been in the picture she recieved the previous morning. I think it would, as the article explains, be possible for her to alter events in another timeline. Some other version of herself, living one day behind (if u believe in multiple universe theory and multiple timelines) would conceivably get her message and changed accordingly, but her boyfriend still would be dead in this timeline.

How did Jasper not remember the photo of him and Callie being of an event in the past? I loved the movie(watched last night) but have a lot of these types of questions.

I think the past can be changed. Let’s imagine the following series of events:

1) Jasper kills Finn just before 8am Wed. 2) Callie sends a message to her past self at 8am Wed to save Finn by killing Jasper. 3) Past is changed. Now Callie receives the message at 8am Tuesday. But at this point she has no knowledge of exactly what happened on Wed. She can only guess. 4) Callie heeds the message and kills Jasper to save Finn just before 8am Wed. 5) Callie sends a message to herself at 8am Wed to save Finn by killing Jasper because if she doesn’t, the timeline switches back to the original one where Finn dies. She believes that the photo is an instruction from her future self and now she has to make sure the instruction is sent to her past self.

Whenever a message is posted, the PAST is changed. Meaning when the photo is received, it is already PAST version 2. When the photo was taken (message posted), it is FUTURE version 1. Meaning FUTURE version 1 takes place chronologically (if you view the events from outside both timelines) before PAST version 2. It makes no sense that a photo is developed in the absence of agency. Someone has to take the picture in the first place.

The exact same photos have to be taken TWICE in order to finalize an event (no more changes can be made). This cements the past. Otherwise, the past can be infinitely reset/changed.

Now let’s imagine that the past cannot be changed.

Future version 1 (where no photo and hence no message is received):

1) Callie joins Finn at the car. 2) Callie sends a message to past Callie to do the thing she has already done without any instruction from her future self.

How does that make any sense?

I feel that this makes more sense (and avoids the usual time travel paradox):

1) Callie doesn’t join Finn at the car. 2) Callie regrets her decision and sends a message to past Callie to join Finn at the car.

Past resets. Past version 2:

3) Callie receives message. 4) Callie joins Finn at the car. 5) Callie sends a message to past Callie to join Finn at the car to finalize the event.

Can someone recommend more such time travel (+mind f***)movies? I’ve already seen Predestination, Triangle, Donnie Darko, Back to the future series..

Ok I am confused. Let’s just take the end part where Callie says “At the end, none of this will matter.” She herself is not going back in time correct? So there must be 2 alternate timelines going on. While she is protecting her past self, her present self would still be arrested and go to jail so all her effort would really be for nothing since her present self would suffer the full consequnces. Correct?

The idea would be that she is doing all this to help another version of herself from an alternate time line. She still gets screwed but that other version of herself in the past is better off…. one could compare it in the real world with how people have the instinct to sacrifice themselves for their children for example. They know they will die but their kids will go on… that’s the only way I can make any sense of it.

I understand that all time travel movies will have a ton of questions but this movie it a bit silly.

The idea is amazing. The actual execution of the plot is really poor.

If present Callie wants to warn past Callie about not getting caught at the window-what happens to present Callie when the security guard takes her away? Does present Callie think that future (her present timeline) won’t exist/will stop existing so it doesn’t matter?

Also, why doesn’t she just shoot the security guard? If none it “matters anyway”?

How does Jasper get his FIRST winning bet results? I get how he got the rest of them but how does he get the FIRST one?

As well as that, how does Finn get inspiration for his own FIRST painting?

When Callie and Jasper are having sex in the photo why is Finn asleep? Is he knocked out? Drugged? Or just asleep? Wouldn’t Finn have remembered waking up there?

Also at the end, Callie could just tell the police about the machine.

“How does Jasper get his FIRST winning bet results? I get how he got the rest of them but how does he get the FIRST one?” He gets them all the same way… what is different about the first time? They are picture from 24h in the future, all of them.

So Callie knocks over the coat stand when that 8pm photo is taken. Did she in that timeline basically do that accidentally as she pulled off her coat? Because her past self did it on purpose, following the message she got, which she sends the next morning and is received 12 hours before the stand should be knocked over By her past self? So did it just make it seem like it happened naturally in the present like the movie showed because of the ripple effect?

Also if the last note successfully remained on the window, the dr would’ve seen that note in the bloody window pic that he took 2 weeks prior, right? Then he would prob still go down to the storage unit and die but when his colleague showed it, Finn and Japser would wonder what the “Don’t get caught at window” note was all about? Then when they did Jaspers “money shot”, Callie would still swap it with the sex photo and she’d successfully remind her past self to not get caught but Finn and Jasper would’ve seen the note in the pic that Dr sent to his colleague, too… But I guess if the note remained on the window, she successfully would’ve changed the past?

the modeling book scene was the scene before jasper put weapons around the house, it showed him standing outside their door like a creeper at the end of it

The concept of this film was awesome but I felt like the execution was poor. The character’s motives and actions made very little sense on several occasions. For example, the three protagonists are pretty good friends at the start of the film, it’s completely unbelievable that Jasper would decide to murder them and there’s no obvious motive. They could’ve placed bets at a bookies like Ladbrokes or something rather than dealing with some sketchy gangster, which would’ve made someone noticing/caring about their winning streak far less likely too. Also, killing Dr. Heidecker made no sense, and they kept trying to perfectly recreate the scenes after she made it clear that they didn’t need to. The sex photo having Finn in the background makes no sense either, why would Callie cheat on him with Jasper while Finn was asleep in the same room? How was Callie so willing to shoot her boyfriend to death and unfazed by watching him die, even if she believed it could be changed that’s psychopathic. Why didn’t she shoot the cop? What was the point of the unrevealed photo at the end, it’s shot like some big dramatic reveal but all it tells us is that the camera kept working, which it had no reason not to. Overall the film left me extremely dissatisfied. Having questions after a time travel movie is normal, but when basically all of those questions are “what was x’s motive for y” there’s a problem.

I agree totally with your review

this is so complicated to read. my brain just can’t take it 🙁

ok. I liked some ideas in this script, like pre-destination, free will, the paradox of the paintings’ inspiration… BUT am I the only one who thinks the basic plot makes no sense??? The camera takes a picture of something in the future, it does not send YOU into the future. You are always in the present. Therefore, you cannot send info to yourself from the future because at no time have you ever left the present. Maybe if they moved a tv to the window and left it on ESPN News they might’ve gotten lucky and seen some future scores (and not just commercials!)

Rather, the camera sends pictures to the past so they follow the pics and the ripple effect adjusts the present maybe? because the pics they follow come out of the camera exactly 24 hours before. The pics the camera spits out in the movie have already taken exactly 24 hours ahead by their future selves, So the results of the race are taken at 8pm of the day when the race has already taken place, and their past selves get them 24 hours prior, which is when they are having that party before the race has happened.

What I don’t understand is Mr. B. It was apparently an accident, but like they said initially, his clothes weren’t burned. Which is why they thought “time” smited him for breaking the rules. We find out that’s apparently not true and that it’s all just an “accident” that happened when he reached for the coil. How the heck did his clothes not burn then? It wouldn’t have just burned his exposed flesh without even touching his clothing.

The gas that was released reacted with his skin but not his clothes.

This explanation doesn’t actually explain why the camera takes a picture after the 8am shot just add Callie is getting arrested. This obviously is not inline with the normal 8am and 8pm shots. Basically, there are three cycles of pictures. The first is the 8pm shots that show 24 hours ahead. The second is the 8am shots that Callie reveals at the end that also reveal 24 hours ahead. The third, which was hinted by Dr. Heidecker, is the 2 weeks ahead shots. Except Dr. Heidecker didn’t know or say it was a cycle so we, the movie viewers, and the main characters just took it as a one time thing. So the last picture taken at the end of the movie was not the 8am nor the 8pm shot. Callie was putting up the “Don’t get caught at the window” note in preparation for the 8pm shot. She thought she could change the original 8pm shot by taping it on the window (and I guess assuming the police would leave it up there since it would be considered evidence). What she didn’t know was that it would take another picture right after the note drops and she gets arrested. That is when we are supposed to realize or figure out that that is the time of when the “2 weeks ahead” photo cycle is taken. It is taken at that time every two weeks. This is why no one knew about it. The movie ends by showing another polaroid being printed but cuts away before it is developed. That is because it wouldn’t show a picture of what happened at that moment; it would show a picture of what the living room would look like 2 weeks from that moment which is not the important thing. The important thing is that there was a 2 week cycle of photos just like the 24 hr 8am and 8pm cycles and it happened to take its photos at the exact time.

I loved the movie. Tightly written, directed, scored and acted. I enjoyed the tension between the characters and the geographical tension of having quite literally only 4 set pieces.

However, there is one thing that escapes me…Why would Callie put “Kill Jasper to Save Finn” on the window, when Jasper was already dead? The future timeline is now meaningless (in terms of on what day things happen, ya know?) so why put the note on the window? Jasper was killed by Callie in that timeline, a day ahead of when he was supposed to be killed.

Callie made it seem like there’s a reset button every morning and given the way the context of the previous 90 minutes played out, we know that’s not true. So…..?? Can anyone help me understand this portion?

Everything else, I get and fully understand. It’s just the timeline/window/Jasper death thing that really bothers me.

There are two different ways of thinking about this, and opinion seems divided on the issue, namely:

1: Callie is able to change the past, and cause a ripple effect on the preset.

2: Callie misunderstood that she can change the past.

Number 1 option suggests Callie had successfully been manipulating the timeline all along during her 8am photo shoot, and revising events to suit her own ends. If this was the case, we may only have seen her corrected, seamless timeline version in the movie. Therefore, the “Kill Jasper to Save Finn” message at the end of the film may have been an example of Callie attempting to ‘change her present by changing the past’ by contacting her yesterday self, who could then act accordingly and ultimately revise the timeline leading to the reality of today’s Callie being different.

Number 2 suggests Callie genuinely made a mistake, and that while she understood the power to deviate slightly from the future shown in the picture, she didn’t understand that she couldn’t rewrite the past, as she would then be truly messing with time. The note falling off the window could then be an example of the ‘Time line protection hypothesis’ which prevents past events from being altered.

Just saw this…. First off…. Great review and explanation….. I agree with most of it…. I also questioned under what circumstance Finn was able to paint.. Finn, Jasper and Callie should have known they could change their original timeline because Finn started to paint using just the inspiration of the photo, but they never know how he got inspired the first time, and Callie never says she knows how he got inspired…. This leads to my second point, I don’t think Callie was able to change the timeline or create a new one, and everything unfolds exactly like it should….. This is why she gets caught and their is no actual proof they can change anything, including the creater of the machine the Dr. was not able to change his death…… I’m guessing the only information left out is how Finn was inspired, and the difference or the lack of information permits us view a different timeline where Finn is inspired just by a photo of a painting he made because of who knows why…… Make it a possible 2nd timeline.

This movie tumbled on so many levels it actually bothered me to see people describe it as a gem as it stands. But, despite feeling like this movie went full tropic thunder on me towards the last act, I do understand how personal affinities with particular genres can extend merits for any production that at the very least takes a shot at it and comes close. But in the realm of time-travel paradoxes it’s typically a shot in the dark, where you are expected to stay.

Without being particularly fond of these types of movies, I’ll extend my free credits and kudos to the good use of limited locations and for performances by the actors who turned in a few shining moments the script lends itself to initially, briefly, before introducing flat character notes and delivering tonal shifts big enough to cause you to question the direction. The twists and turns might be sound sci-play for some but it seemed like I had to just play along to avoid noting the why-don’t-they-just and oh-come-on’s that you entertain from horror flicks as part of the fun. (Think grindhouse).

Needless to say the greatest disappointment in this time lapse movie is the contradiction of temporal continuity that attempts to conveniently introduce other paradoxes for the purpose of surmounting a cluster-f#ck of possible time capsules that could cross each other perpetually until the end of time.. or shoot each other with freakin laser beams attached to their heads.

Maybe I’m a little dense. I don’t understand how Jasper makes money on the bets with photos. If he post that day’s race results in the window and the 8 pm camera takes a picture, when they look at the race results it will be from 24 hour prior or yesterday, andthat betting for that is way over. So, how to it help the future Jasper to see day-old race results?

Jasper takes a photo of today’s racing results, but receives a photo of tomorrow’s racing results in return. The racing results which Jasper poses for today are received by yesterday’s Jasper, who has not experienced the present yet and so can take advantage of the results.

I think everyone is looking at it backwards. It isn’t that the camera took pictures of the future so much as it let them send information to the past. Jasper and Finn had little impact on things because they looked at it has having to do what the future pic showed. Callie likely went through much trial and error in multiple resulting timelines by sending messages to herself in the past. The movie only showed us one timeline that resulted from her final decisions of how to proceed after her trial and error.

I see what you’re saying … but …

Why would Callie put “Kill Jasper to Save Finn” on the window, when Jasper was already dead? The future timeline is now meaningless (in terms of on what day things happen, ya know?) so why put the note on the window? Jasper was killed by Callie in that timeline, a day ahead of when he was supposed to be killed.

Callie made it seem like there’s a reset button every morning (saying “tomorrow it’ll be like none of this ever happened”) and given the way the context of the previous 90 minutes played out, we know that’s not true. So…..??

She put it on the window to send instructions to a past self to create a new timeline. She is sending instructions back each day to create a timeline she considers successful. The self that put the note in the window won’t experience that timeline, the self that sees the note will go down the path of a new timeline. Somewhere in all the timelines there will be one of her where everything works out exactly how she wants. Until she gets arrested and can’t put any more notes in the window, of course.

TA = Timeline A

Starting with TA she makes some choices and figures out which ones were right choices. She puts a note in the window. A past self sees it and this splits into TB.

Self in TB goes down a different timeline, makes the choices the note said to make, plus some other choices, and puts a different note in the window. The past self that sees the note goes down the path of TC. Lather, rinse, repeat. By continuing to tweak her choices she is trying to end up with T? where everything works out the way she wants.

// Callie made it seem like there’s a reset button every morning (saying “tomorrow it’ll be like none of this ever happened”) and given the way the context of the previous 90 minutes played out, we know that’s not true. So…..??//

It isn’t true for the Callie in the timeline where she puts the note in the window, but for the Callie in the new timeline that is created that reads the note, those things never happen.

Wouldn’t Jasper had known something was wrong when he saw the picture of the affair since he would’ve known it already happened instead of going to happen?

Also, what was Finn realizing as he was painting the final painting? Supposedly, his future self sent a message back to the scientist to get him into the basement to die so Finn would have access to the keys to escape. Wouldn’t that mean Finn is “ahead” of the scientist? If he never painted that painting, the scientist wouldn’t have died and Callie wouldn’t have found the time camera. A bit confused.

Although Jasper had already had an affair with Callie, he would have been unaware of the actual photos taken by the camera and so not recognized the photo as being a past photo of them together. Jasper would then have felt compelled to enact the scene depicted in that photo in order to lock in the predetermined future.

Similarly, Finn also painted the spiral-green-thing (thorium gas canister) in his painting to ensure that the photo taken two weeks in the future remained consistent. He most likely wondered what would have happened if he omitted the thorium sign, meaning Mr. B never went to the basement, and never died. Finn may have contemplated whether that would have resulted in things returning back to normal, but in the end he decided the risk of not reproducing the photo was too high to take. As far as “Finn being ahead” of the scientist” – that’s quite “normal” for time travel related themes!

Thank you very much for this explanation and detailed replies, it made me realize that even if I think I understand the movie, I actually know nothing 🙂

Now to my question: Out of all the photos Callie had, why did she change to the charade one? What did she want to achieve now that Finn is already fond of her?

can somebody tell me what that thing was that ivan was threatening callie with?? That weird metal plate thing. My first thought was some kind of device for ripping up fingernails, and then I legitimately thought it was a kalimba. Now I have no clue at all.

Good question. Can’t say I’ve seen anything like it before, but seems like the idea is to force a hand/fingers onto those spikes, and it also looks like the contraption folds over for additional pain. Nasty business, indeed from the violent bookie, Ivan.

It was a mandolin. Used for slicing vegetables and fruit into thin, thick, or shoestring like chunks/discs. Works especially well for making evenly-cut sweet potato fries or just regular potato fries.

that would be a mandolin slicer.

Although it’s obviously unclear whether or not Callie was changing events, it appears as though all of the events fall on a linear timeline, which is always frustrating to me. The question of whether or not they could change anything was never actually answered in the film, and was instead replaced by fate (or chance). Even if someone with prior knowledge attempted to recreate a photo they received from the future, there’s an incredibly slim chance it would be exactly the same, and eventually there would be a noticeable difference. Instead, the photos are exactly the same (as far as we can tell), which can only described as fate (or incredible chance). Fate always seems like the easy answer in a time travel story. Because of this and the numerous obvious paradoxes, it was hard to take the film’s concept very seriously.

The first picture they see jasper did not bet that day, he simply watched the races and recorded the results to put in the window. It seems the movie follows a multiple timeline theory in that the events happened once, and callie made the notes, thus all future timelines would be altered. Or there is one time line that is changed multiple times.

Also just because none of the pictures didn’t change doesn’t mean the timeline didn’t. It is probable that once the photo is printed the PHOTO is set in stone, if something else changes the timeline the photo already printed will not change. So the photo from Mr. B, one week in the future shows his “death”, if someone changes the events the photo taken 24hrs would be different, but not change the other.

The photo is a glimpse of the future at the point it was taken, it’s not from the future itself(think back to the future) so it wouldn’t change with the timeline.

I’m confused in the end about the “Kiss Jasper too Long” photo. How is Callie standing in front of the 8pm painted picture? If the photos are only 24hours into the future and Finn only draws the clock picture past 8pm.

Hi Shoaib, Callie sent the ‘KISS JASPER TOO LONG’ photo at 8am, and not 8pm. She’d been using the 8am photo shoot to manipulate events to her own ends, and make Finn jealous.

Thanks Pete 🙂

So she sent the picture of “KISS JASPER TOO LONG” to change the FUTURE, not the past. That explains why she made the picture of the text at 8 a.m. and right at 8 p.m. she received a picture of her kissing Jasper. So she controlled the tomorrow’s day, not the past day

What’s also interesting is the element of wish-fulfillment. When they found the machine, they asked the question… what would you want?

Jasper: A pile of cash Finn: Painting inspiration Callie (speculated by Jasper): A ring from Finn

All got what they wanted but to terrifying endings.

bitches be crazy even more so when you let em mess with time i know one thing for sure i would have destroyed that shit right away ive watched enough sci fi movies to know not to mess with time great movie been a while since i was so stuck to the movie screen.

There are three completely different ways of viewing the time travel mechanism in this movie.

In the Jasper outlook, the photos are used to change the future. You receive information and then act on it, as to profit via insider gambling information. Then in the future you simply have to make sure you remember to send that same information back to yourself.

In the Callie outlook, the photos are used to change the past. After a day happens, you send information backwards in time allowing you to change how that day went. (This explains her belief at the end that none of the day’s events will matter – as she will simply send herself a message allowing her to change those events.)

In the Finn outlook, the photos don’t actually do anything; they are simply a self-fullfilling prophecy showing you what you were already going to do.

Ultimately all three outlooks fall flat, of course. What is the truth? None of them make complete sense.

What was representing the last photo? last second of the film? Blank?

I was thinking, since regularly scheduled shots at 8am/8pm shoots that instant, sends the image 24h back in time, and at the same time spits out the image from 24h into the future, similar mechanism is at play – that is, since the camera was taking “bloody window” photo, which the old guy received (at least) 1 week ago, the photo that pops out in the final scene is that of (at least) 1 week or more in the future. I guessed blank means the machine was dismantled/destroyed soon after during criminal investigation. But then, it’s polaroid; these things take awhile for image to emerge. Guess we’ll never know what’s going to be on it.

Basically, there are three cycles of pictures. The first is the 8pm shots that show 24 hours ahead. The second is the 8am shots that Callie reveals at the end that also reveal 24 hours ahead. The third, which was hinted by Dr. Heidecker, is the 2 weeks ahead shots. Except Dr. Heidecker didn’t know or say it was a cycle so we, the movie viewers, and the main characters just took it as a one time thing. So the last picture taken at the end of the movie was not the 8am nor the 8pm shot. Callie was putting up the “Don’t get caught at the window” note in preparation for the 8pm shot. She thought she could change the original 8pm shot by taping it on the window (and I guess assuming the police would leave it up there since it would be considered evidence). What she didn’t know was that it would take another picture right after the note drops and she gets arrested. That is when we are supposed to realize or figure out that that is the time of when the “2 weeks ahead” photo cycle is taken. It is taken at that time every two weeks. This is why no one knew about it. The movie ends by showing another polaroid being printed but cuts away before it is developed. That is because it wouldn’t show a picture of what happened at that moment; it would show a picture of what the living room would look like 2 weeks from that moment which is not the important thing. The important thing is that there was a 2 week cycle of photos just like the 24 hr 8am and 8pm cycles and it happened to take its photos at the exact time.

This is 100% correct. Well said.

How does the time machine changed its settings from 1 week in advance to 1 day?

I assume its as simple as changing a dial or switch. I guess Mr Bezzerides realized it was a bad idea seeing too far into the future and so reset the machine to it’s previous 8am/8pm settings.

Pete, you appear to have a grasp on the time sequences….etc…Please explain how “Jasper” was initially able to determine or acquire the results of the races? That seems to be a major flaw particularly since the camera is only taking a picture of their apartment and they never leave the complex.

Hi Charles, Jasper was able to acquire the racing results by either watching TV or reading about them in the newspaper. He then stood in front of the camera with a board and sent the information back to himself the previous day.

Basically changing the original outcome of the previous day or from some theorists perspective “creating an alternate or new time-line.” The series “Fringe” handled this quite fascinatingly. Were you a fan?

I never got round to watching Fringe, although I heard it was a great series. I must have watched dozens of other shows and time travel movies in which an alternate or new time-line is created, including Yesterday’s Enterprise (TNG), and All Good Things (TNG). In Time Lapse, as in many other movies dealing with time travel concepts, however, I think its possible the characters may either be creating a new time-line or universe with their actions, or alternatively simply rewriting the events of their own timeline over and over again.

unless there are two time lines, this won’t work. Jasper stands in front of the window with that days results. the camera is taking a picture of that day. it’s taking a picture of 24 hours into the future, and he isn’t standing there with any dog racing results that aren’t history by that time.

It doesn’t matter if he’s “standing there with any dog racing results that aren’t history by that time”. If you consider linear timeline, the first time Jasper gets hold of race results is the night before the race, when he receives the results from the future where future him sends the results back via time camera. Next day, he makes the bets, profits, then at 8PM posts the day’s results on the window (which he already knew the night before) and sends them back in time.

Think of the information on race results(before the race actually takes place, hence, unknown) as Finn’s paintings. This holds as long as we can agree that there’s no way Jasper could alter the outcome of the race by knowing the results beforehand. They’re both information (i.e. something that doesn’t degrade with time), and they spring out from nowhere. Past you get it from future you(via time machine), who(future you) in turn got it from past you(by normal passage of time). It’s just another form of bootstrap paradox.

While the camera is taking a photo for the previous day, it is also releasing a photo for the next evening. Therefore, Jasper was sending today’s racing results to himself yesterday, while his tomorrow self was sending the information to himself today.

I’ve been seeking mind-bending movies for a while now, and this movie is just PERFECT. After watching Predestination I thought that nothing could be better, but I’m seriously reconsiderig that now… I mean the plot work is absolutely stunning ! Thanks for the review 🙂

Thanks. Glad it helped 🙂

Also check out Triangle and Coherence for some more mind-bendyness bonanza!

I know this is 2 months old, but I just watched this gem. I wonder if the writer had ever seen Nolan’s Memento because it reminded me a little of it. Anyway, something you said is confusing me. When you talk about Callie being incorrect about her last warning note (before she is arrested) changing everything, I would think you would only be right if the photo spit out at the end (which we didn’t get to see) showed a different scene. That is, if the picture actually includes Callie’s warning to her self then she did not alter the future away from the photos. Consequently, I am also confused how we can infer that because Dr. Bez’s “death” photo was not changed, then Callie’s warning did not stick. If the last photo spit out at the end matches with Callie’s warning note, then the only thing that would change would be that Callie and her boyfriend escape. That is, any photo that is spit out at 8pm (after the 8am spit out that we didn’t see) would be whatever it is and would have no effect on prior photos (including Dr. Bez’s). I am sure I am probably mixed-up somewhere, but those two comments of yours struck me as odd. Great job on the write up by the way.

I totally agree with you since the day before Callie didn’t get Dr Bez death photo but instead her own. But that scene did play out but she should’ve gotten it the day before and it should’ve been that day’s 8am photo. So if that note did stay up the whole ending would’ve changed with her and Finn getting away and the crime scene photo still existing. That would’ve been an excellent ending instead

i disagree i liked that ending she was cheating on him the whole time she can rot in jail and think about what her actions caused. i was upset that the only character with the sense to destroy it was killed tho he deserved to live.

Hi Z4, in my opinion it wouldn’t have mattered if she stuck a sign up or not stating ‘DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE WINDOW’, as the photo had already been created without a sign for that date. As was mentioned, you cannot mess with time, except at the end of the movie Callie started to believe she could, and tried to change the photo Mr Bezzerides had sent Heidecker before his death.

These are some interesting points but I think you misinterpreted a few things. Here’s the timeline as I saw it in the movie.

I think the confusion lies with the time that is represented by the photo that Mr Bezzerides’s got at the beginning of the movie that he thought depicted his death (i.e. the photo with the blood splatter, the coil painting, and his hat WITHOUT THE POLICE TAPE). When Dr. Heidecker is introduced and shows the audience this photo she tells Finn and Jasper that it’s from the next day. As the audience, we are bound by the 2 photo a day narrative (i.e. 8am and 8pm) that we get from the characters and assume that this photo represents the 8pm photo from the next day. However, Mr Bezzerides figured out how to modify the machine to take a photo AT ANY TIME in the future (not being confined to the 8am/pm construct). Thus, this photo represents some time between the 8am photo that Cassie sent back to herself saying to SWAP PHOTO TO CHARADE NIGHT & KILL JASPER TO SAVE FINN and the photo from the previous night that predicted the same scene (i.e. the photo with the blood splatter, the coil painting) only WITH THE POLICE TAPE this time. This fits with the narrative of the movie because after she sends the 8am photo back to herself the previous day she kills Finn (creating the blood splatter on the Dr.’s photo). Also, Cassies note to NOT GET CAUGHT BY THE WINDOW is missing from the photo that represented that days 8pm events (i.e. the one she switched out with the charade night sex photo the previous night). This fits with the end of the movie where it fell off as she was being escorted away by Big Joe. Thus, that night’s scene would be what was predicted in the previous nights photo.

As for the last photo at the end of the movie that we don’t see developed, well this is irrelevant to the plot that involves the characters in the movie. The story revolves around the audience (and the characters) seeing into the future to predict the events that come between then and the present. However, the story that we are introduced to has come full circle and I think it’s meant to represent a return of the audience to uncertainty about what the future has to offer.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for this, helps clear it up a little. This is why I have a love/hate relationship with time travel movies. They keep me thinking about them way too long after and there are always paradoxes you can’t ever explain.

Glad you enjoyed this brilliant little mind-bender of a movie, which was certainly well written and suspenseful enough to one day be considered a candidate for cult status. Like you say, the best sci-fi films dealing with time travel can be challenging to say the least, and are invariably jam packed with untold paradoxes deliberately intended to confuse the viewer, and leave them pondering a host of unanswered questions. Nevertheless, few other genres capture the imagination like a good time travel yarn, and their knotty, twisted plots can be extremely fun to watch and thoroughly entertaining in a very novel way.

Time travel is one of my favorite genres, and this movie was surprisingly great with such a simple premise that turns very complicated. I wasn’t totally sold on it until the very end, but what a twist! Makes you second guess the entire movie.

Time Lapse (2014) : Movie Plot Ending Explained

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Time Lapse is a 2014 science-fiction , time-travel movie directed by Bradley King. This movie technically doesn’t have time-related glitches. Not big ones at least. Where it does have a problem is with each of the characters. The story is about 3 friends who live together. Finn (Matt O’Leary), his girlfriend Callie (Danielle Panabaker from Flash), and his best friend Jasper (George Finn, yeah Jasper’s real name is Finn). The three of them end up finding a machine in the house across which takes mysterious photos of their home. Mysterious because the photo is from the next day. Ya, the camera takes pictures of tomorrow. The movie is about how the three ordinary people go crazy within days of finding a machine that shows them their future. What makes it hard to believe is not the machine, it’s the fact that three regular fun-loving people transmogrify into completely different individuals in mere days. It’s hard to justify a transformation like that. Here’s the plot analysis and the ending of the film Time Lapse explained; spoilers ahead.

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– Plot Explained
– What is Callie secretly messaging herself?
– What has happened to Mr.B?
– Jasper loses it first
– Kiss Jasper
– Ivan
– Dr. Heidecker
– Now Kill Jasper
– Callie Gets Caught
– Ending Explained

Time Lapse: Plot Explained

I’m going to explain the events of Time Lapse in a chronological fashion as it makes it easy to understand. Obviously, there is going to be a ton load of spoilers here on.

Finn is an artist who has a creative block. He’s unable to find his painter’s mojo. Finn and Callie have been having problems with their relationship. Finn is a little distant and Callie is not feeling the love. Callie wants to do something about it. So, Callie sleeps with Jasper while Finn sleeps on the couch. Finn really enjoys his beauty sleep like that. Callie and Jasper are drunk and get it on. What they don’t realize is there is a Mr.B whose time-camera is taking pictures of her naughtiness. This bit of the plot is revealed only towards the end. Jasper is a dude who’s into gambling and is a consistent loser.

Finn is an apartment manager and Mr.B from across hasn’t been paying rent for a couple of months. Finn sends Callie over to Mr.B’s house to check the scene out. Callie goes over to Mr.B’s and enters his place when there is no answer (that’s the ideal thing to do – break in when no one answers your knock). Callie sees the machine and the photos. She also sees the pictures that have been taken during her naughty with Jasper. From the pictures looks like she and Jasper have been naughty many times. She wants to hide this so she removes some of those pictures. She also figures that the machine is set to take pictures at 8AM and 8PM. But Callie figures that she can keep the 8AM part a secret because she sees a picture of herself from the following morning standing with notes that read – “Knock coat stand over. Hide last week’s day photos”. She decides to hide that 8AM information to pass messages secretly to herself.

What is Callie trying to do with the secret messaging to herself?

Callie figures that Finn is very distant and she wants to bring the spark back. That is what she wants from all of this. Very nice of her to not turn to the money and buy herself a new boyfriend. Callie sees her future self giving instructions at 8AM every morning. These instructions are to help her get Finn back close to her. That’s about it. Of course that’s not all what happens. I’ll come to that later, read on.

What has happened to Mr.B in Time Lapse?

Callie comes back and tells Finn and Jasper that she’s found their photos in Mr.B’s house. The 3 of them head over to Mr.B’s figure he’s a peeping tom and get back. They return to notice that the pictures are from a day ahead. B’s journal reads that he may have seen his own death and needs to change that future. What B’s journal is talking about is the last picture. This one:

What Mr.B notices is the blood and his hat (circled in red). He thinks he’s seen a crime scene of his own death. To ensure he doesn’t die as shown by the picture he aims to change the future. This he mentions in his journal. This picture is not shown to us at this point, it comes a lot later in the film. Mr.B does mail the picture out to Dr. Heidecker. A thing to note here is that this picture he sees and sends out is taken weeks into the future. Which means the machine can take photos more than a day into the future. But that fact doesn’t get used anywhere else other than for the picture that he sends Dr. Heidecker.

The 3 of them locate a room which contains the dead body of Mr.B. He seems to be burnt while his clothes are intact. The 3 conclude that this must be because Mr.B tried to change time.

What actually has happened is while trying to get material for his machine, Mr.B has dropped that helical item on a canister of thorium gas. Mr.B dies as the result of an accident. It has nothing to do with changing the future. Again, this information is not disclosed till later in the film.

Jasper loses it first

Jasper starts using Mr.B’s hat. Jasper suggests they should start using the camera to hold up the race results so they can bet on it and win. Jasper convinces the other two that they should wait and not call the cops. The next night they have a party and Finn confirms that the machine is doing what they think it is doing. The next pic Finn sees is the trio holding up the race results for the following day. Finn also notices there is a painting on the canvas, he’s happy that he can see what needs to paint and then painting it.

The next day, they decide to not report the dead corpse and go ahead with whatever the photos show. Jasper bets and wins the race, gets money. Finn paints the painting from the photo. They go on to pose with the race winnings. Days pass and they continue posing with the race results for the camera. They bet on the races and start winning big. The picture that happens next is with Callie and Jasper kissing. This one:

Kiss Jasper

The trio are confused how it ends up happening but go ahead with the kissing anyways because they don’t want to break the pattern of the future. They believe that if they don’t follow through they are going to end up dead like Mr.B. Here’s what we don’t know as viewers at this point. The next morning Callie gets the 8AM picture that reads “Kiss Jasper for too long”. So when 8PM arrives, she follows that instruction and stretches out the kiss. She is rewarded with Finn getting jealous. Hmm, she’s smart that way, very smart.

The next snap has Jasper sitting with his bookie, Ivan, in their apartment. So now they figure they are in for some trouble. Jasper calls Ivan and results in Ivan showing up. Finn decides to leave as he’s not in the photo. Callie joins him. Again Callie follows Finn because Callie has a morning message from herself saying “Go with Finn to the car”. Ivan shows up at the house. Obviously he does, what kind of idiots bet non-stop without losing? Jasper is forced to say that he has a source and Ivan can ride his bets.

Titanic Style

The next photo has Finn painting Callie Titanic style with a silhouette of Jasper peeping. Callie is pissed. Ivan leaves. The next day arrives, Callie decides to pose, Finn asks Jasper to leave. Callie has already received a message at 8AM saying – “Pose for Finn”. She follows through. Finn expresses how beautiful Callie is. Callie’s secret 8AM plan seems to be working. Finn is getting back to her. Just then they realize that the silhouette is not Jasper’s but Ivan’s. Ivan and his goon find out about the machine. Ivan threatens Jasper to follow his simple instructions – post the race results day on day. Ivan takes away the photo too, so Finn can’t see a painting. Ivan is a genius of his own kind. Finn is pissed he can’t paint anymore.

Killing Ivan

The next snap that comes out the following day, Jasper takes a copy of it on his phone. When they look into the phone they see a skull, some sort of a warning. So Jasper prepares to kill Ivan’s goon. Joe, the apartment security, tells Finn that he’s become a cop. Later Ivan and goon are questioning the trio about their connection with Joe. Jasper lies to Ivan saying his goon will kill him the next day. Jasper tricks the goon to reposition himself and stabs him to death. Ivan comes back and Jasper bludgeons him to death. They clean up. The next picture shows Jasper sitting with a ton of money. Jasper figures it’s Ivan’s money. Callie receives her morning message 8AM saying – “Don’t forgive Finn”. This is again to make Finn feel a greater desire to fight for Callie. She’s on her own trip. See this is what I was talking about, two people have been murdered in the apartment by her friend and roommate. Callie is still only worried about her relationship gaps with Finn. She’s upset with the blood on her face because she gets a message about it from her future self, not because, you know, BLOOD on her face!

Time Lapse: Dr. Heidecker

Dr. Heidecker (the lady from the answering machine) pays the trio a visit and pulls a gun on them and makes them reveal the truth. They take her to the machine and show her Mr.B too. Dr. Heidecker shows them the photo she was sent. She also tells them that time didn’t kill Mr.B, the cannister of thorium did. Knowing that Dr. Heidecker is of no real use to them Jasper kills her with Ivan’s gun.

Killing, chilling

Jasper, a normal guy, an asshole perhaps, but a regular bum just becomes an ice cold killer over few days. He now knows how to kill like a pro – knife, baseball bat, gun, you name it. The other two are also not very concerned that their roommate and friend is comfortably killing people at random.

Now Kill Jasper

As Jasper decides to pose for his next pic with the money, Callie offers to go to the camera and help him get it perfect. Callie has already received a message at 8AM asking herself to swap out the day’s picture with the one that shows her making out with Jasper. Apparently in spite of the increasing body count, she still cares only about her relationship issues. Her message to herself reads “Swap photo to charades night. Kill Jasper to save Finn”. Her message to herself is to KILL her roommate, like that’s a normal thing right? But unperturbed, she goes ahead with the instructions. She swaps out the image to this one:

Callie Gets Caught

When the three meet and see the photo. Callie knows it’s an old photo but Finn and Jasper don’t. Finn wants to leave, Jasper knocks Finn out and throws him in with dead Mr.B. Finn gets out. Takes a bucket of water and threatens Jasper. The two fight, Jasper’s about to kill Finn. Callie kills Jasper as instructed. Callie puts Finn to rest and comes to put the message for the 8AM photo. Finn catches Callie and makes her explain what she’s been doing and how she has swapped the pics. Finn finally gives up and decides to leave.

Time Lapse: Ending Explained

The ending of Time Lapse shows us that Callie has a plan. She wants to put up a message saying “Don’t get caught at the window”. That way she won’t get caught and everything would be hunky dory. Basically she’s trying to say, hey, let me go back and cheat on you so that you won’t catch me cheating on you. Finn, who may be the only averagely sane person, wants to walk out on all of this. But no, Callie now pulls a gun on Finn. She still strongly feels that this mess can be reverted. Note : the mess she is is looking to revert is not the killing of Jasper, her roommate or the other dead people; she is looking to only revert her being caught by Finn. Finn still leaves, or tires to. Callie shoots Finn because, you know, if you are going to change time, might as well kill the boyfriend you are trying to change time for. Anyway there are enough dead people in the house.

Callie puts a message on the window for 8AM. The message reads “Don’t get caught at the window. Just as she’s waiting for the camera to go out. Joe the cop shows up and asks her to open the door. He finds people dead in the hall so he takes Callie away. Callie leaves peacefully because she thinks the message is going to save her. This is Predestination, the causal loop has already occurred, it can’t be changed. The message is not stuck properly and the tape gives way and the message falls. Callie tries to run back to stick the message back on but Joe drags her away. The camera takes its 8AM snap and before the image develops, it cuts to black.

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Because a solar eclipse is incredibly rare, with the next one not taking place until 20 years from now, many skygazers are making a full event of the spectacle.

While some people may feel the astrological affects of the event , others in the path of totality will have a front-row view as the eclipse makes its way from Mexico through the United States and into Canada in the afternoon.

Wondering if you’ll experience the complete darkness of the solar eclipse? Read ahead to learn more about when the total solar eclipse will make its way to your city.

What time does the solar eclipse start?

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The eclipse begins in Mexico on Monday, April 8 at about 11:07 a.m. PDT. From there, it will make its way to the United States, crossing into Texas at about 1:27 p.m. CDT.

What cities are in the path of totality for the solar eclipse?

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The path of totality, or the area in which people will experience the Moon completely blocking the Sun, will range between 108 and 122 miles wide in North America, per NASA . That is significantly larger than the 2017 eclipse, which ranged from about 62 to 71 miles wide. NASA also reports that an estimated 31.6 million people live in the path of totality this year, compared to 12 million in 2017.

Additionally, those in the line of the path of totality will also experience a partial eclipse before and after the totality. According to NASA, “99% of people who reside in the United States will be able to see the partial or total eclipse from where they live.” They add that every contiguous U.S. state, plus parts of Alaska and Hawaii, will at least experience a partial solar eclipse.

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Below is when each city in the path of totality will begin to experience the totality of the eclipse. For a more detailed chart on start times, visit NASA .

Dallas, Texas, 1:40 p.m. CDT

Idabel, Okla., 1:45 p.m. CDT

Little Rock, Ark., 1:51 p.m. CDT

Poplar Bluff, Miss., 1:56 p.m. CDT

Paducah, Ky., 2:00 p.m. CDT

Carbondale, Ill., 1:59 p.m. CDT

Evansville, Ind., 2:02 p.m. CDT

Cleveland, Ohio, 3:13 p.m. EDT

Erie, Pa., 3:16 p.m. EDT

Buffalo, N.Y., 3:18 p.m. EDT

Burlington, Vt., 3:26 p.m. EDT

Lancaster, N.H., 3:27 p.m. EDT

Caribou, Maine, 3:32 p.m. EDT

When does the solar eclipse end?

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After making its way through Maine, the solar eclipse will come to a close in Canada. The total solar eclipse will start in Brantford, Ont. at 3:17 p.m. and conclude its path of totality in Perth-Andover, N.B. at 4:35 p.m., per CBC News .

What time will the solar eclipse be viewable in your area?

As previously stated, even if you don’t live near the path of totality, you will likely still experience a partial eclipse in your area.

NASA has made it easy to figure out the best viewing times for your city. Simply visit NASA’s website and log in your zip code to their handy calculator. From there, you can track the various phases of the solar eclipse in your area, including watch times.

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In Valencia, Emilio is a retired mathematics professor. He lives a calm life in the scenic town daily and sits in the same bar to solve magic puzzles. Everything goes on smoothly until one day when he is unable to solve the puzzle and forgets his way back home. Is it a normal momentary lapse or is it something severe?

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Seriously, it's pretty incredible..

Earlier this week, a total solar eclipse swept over North America , granting millions of spectators an incredible show of orbital mechanics, which saw the moon block the face of the sun to shroud the Earth in its shadow.

Now, NASA, SpaceX, and others are sharing spectacular views of the April 8 eclipse taken by a fleet of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, which serve to emphasize the grand scale of the cosmic event. Many of the videos - such as the one below captured by a SpaceX Starlink satellite - show a time lapse of the moon’s shadow passing through Mexico and the United States, before crossing over Canada and passing out into the Atlantic Ocean.

View of the solar eclipse from a Starlink satellite on orbit pic.twitter.com/RAwT2uQUUh — Starlink (@Starlink) April 8, 2024

Sped-up look at our video of the Solar Eclipse filmed from orbit #Eclipse2024 pic.twitter.com/Pv2cyOluzq — sen (@sen) April 9, 2024

Astronauts were also able to capture images of the eclipse from their vantage point aboard the International Space Station, which is currently orbiting at a height of roughly 250 nautical miles above Earth's surface . Simultaneously, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES EAST satellite captured a wider view of the eclipse from its position in geosynchronous orbit some 22,236 miles from Earth.

Ever seen a total solar #eclipse from space? Here is our astronauts' view from the @Space_Station pic.twitter.com/2VrZ3Y1Fqz — NASA (@NASA) April 8, 2024

Watch a replay of the moon's shadow traveling across the path of totality, seen from @NOAA ’s #GOESEast satellite. #TotalEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2024 , #TotalEclipse2024 #NOAATotalEclipse2024 , #2024Eclipse pic.twitter.com/eNaRb6qoKH — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) April 8, 2024

Among the fleet of scientific spacecraft capturing data on the event was the European Space Agency’s Proba-2 satellite, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory , which successfully recorded direct images of the sun’s surface and atmosphere as the new moon traversed its disk.

Closer to home, a plane full of lucky airline passengers just so happened to find themselves flying high above the clouds in the path of totality, right as the Moon’s shadow swept beneath them, plunging the world into shadow and triggering a 360 degree golden sunset.

Solar eclipse from plane pic.twitter.com/SRGRfjlD8N — Black Hole (@konstructivizm) April 8, 2024

Can you see a solar eclipse from space? Yes, you can! 🛰️ ESA's Proba-2 satellite filmed yesterday's #SolarEclipse2024 while flying hundreds of km above Earth's surface. 🌑🌑☀️It saw the Moon pass in front of the Sun not just once, but twice! 👉 https://t.co/xpa9H0czDH pic.twitter.com/a73BlGeffl — ESA Science (@esascience) April 9, 2024

This is a solar eclipse. Seen from Earth orbit by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on 29 June 2022. It's in 4K. Open it up and look for the mountains along the Moon's edge. pic.twitter.com/56IeBvG3Hr — Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) April 8, 2024

The coming decades will see NASA and its allies strive to establish a crewed colony on the moon as part of its Artemis program . To achieve this, scientists and engineers from across the globe will need to develop a slew of new technologies and spacecraft, including an entirely new space station known as the Lunar Gateway. The Lunar Gateway will orbit around the moon, providing support to astronauts working to uncover the myriad secrets still held by Earth's closest closmic companion .

If NASA is able to stick to this ambitious program , then the next total solar eclipse to sweep across North America in August 2044 could well be photographed by astronauts crewing a newly established base camp near the lunar South Pole.

Thumbnail credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium.

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Solar eclipse 2024: Watch live replay of totality in Mexico, Texas, New York, more

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Join The Associated Press on April 8 at 10:00 a.m. EDT for a total solar eclipse watch party live from Texas with livestreams from Mexico, Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio and New York .

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon lines up perfectly between the Earth and the sun, blocking out the sunlight .

The eclipse, which will last almost twice as long than the total solar eclipse in 2017, will start in Mexico and cross into Texas and 14 other U.S. states, before exiting over Canada .

Totality will last the longest over Mexico at 4 minutes and 28 seconds.

Solar eclipse livestream

AP journalists will be live along the path of totality starting at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Commentary will start at 1:30 p.m. EDT and feature interviews with party organizers and scientists.

Dezaray Butts and her father Douglas wear solar eclipse glasses as they observe the partial phase of a total solar eclipse, in Kingston, Ontario, Monday, April 8, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Solar eclipse 2024 locations

Totality will enter North America at Mazatlan, Mexico, and exit at Newfoundland in Canada. Fifteen U.S. states will experience totality, including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont.

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FILE - A total solar eclipse April 8 will enter over Mexico’s Pacific coast, dash up through Texas and Oklahoma, crisscross the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England, before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic. (AP Photo, File)

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Jimmy Fallon Celebrated the Eclipse By Performing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ With Heart | Video

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Leave it to Jimmy Fallon to turn your silliest pun-filled celebrity fantasies into reality. On Monday, the late night host celebrated the eclipse by performing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” with — you guessed it — the band Heart.

Before you ask, no. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was never a Heart song but instead is a Bonnie Tyler single off her fifth album “Faster Than the Speed of Night.”

Naturally, Fallon and Heart undertook the once-in-a-lifetime performance on the rooftop of 30 Rockefeller Center right as the moon passed between the Earth and the sun. Though Fallon sported eclipse glasses throughout the whole performance, lead singers Ann and Nancy Wilson went without the eye protection. New York City wasn’t in the path of totality for the natural event, but the video does capture the odd darkness that was present throughout the world of Monday. Even as bright blue skies can be seen in the background, the lighting looks as if Fallon and Heart are performing at dusk. Watch the video above.

The official X account for “The Tonight Show” also shared a time lapse of the performance zooming in on the sun. Though a select group were able to watch the show live, the video officially premiered Monday night on NBC during the latest episode of Fallon’s show.

📸 BTS time-lapse of Jimmy & @officialheart performing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” during the solar eclipse! #Eclipse2024 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/LVHkd7OPoq — The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) April 8, 2024

The “Tonight Show” guests for the evening included Jim Parsons, Kaia Gerber and Heart for another musical performance. The second time around, the legendary American rock band performed their hit “Barracuda.”

That was far from Fallon’s only reference to the eclipse on Monday night. During his opening monologue, the NBC late night host joked that one major network fumbled it eclipse coverage.

“I think CNN messed up by not having Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper count down to the blackout while getting blacked out,” Fallon joked. “I mean, come on. That would’ve been great!”

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The Era of Klaus Mäkelä, Conducting Phenom, Begins in Chicago

On Thursday, the richly talented 28-year-old maestro led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time since being named its next music director.

On a red podium, a young man with a modishly tailored black suit and bowtie gestures energetically with his baton. Around him are the string players of an orchestra.

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On Thursday evening, when Klaus Mäkelä came onstage to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time since being named its next music director , he seemed at pains not to bask in the roar that greeted his entrance.

He smiled, bowed and quickly turned to give the downbeat. The orchestra had already released a video of the moment on Tuesday when the players were told he got the job. Many maestros would take the opportunity to wax a little eloquent before getting down to business; Mäkelä spoke for less than 20 seconds before raising his baton to start the rehearsal.

Mäkelä, just 28, clearly wants to avoid seeming like a vain, spotlight-craving young man. He is already the topic of much discussion for being what some consider far too early in his career for such an august position — the Chicago Symphony has been among America’s finest for well over a century — especially when he has already taken on daunting responsibilities with European orchestras.

His rise has been one of the most meteoric in modern music history. After completing his education in his native Finland, Mäkelä began his international career in earnest a mere six years ago; the pandemic was for him a period of unnatural acceleration.

He is not, however, the first 20-something conductor to burst onto the classical scene. Gustavo Dudamel was Mäkelä’s age when he became the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Leonard Bernstein was 25 when his surprise New York Philharmonic debut, broadcast nationwide, made headlines.

And Willem Mengelberg was just 24 when he took on the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the eminent ensemble at which Mäkelä is currently artistic partner. He will become chief conductor there in 2027, the same year he will officially become music director in Chicago. (And the same year that his current podium contracts, in Paris and Oslo, will lapse.)

Mäkelä has outpaced even those precursors, though. For Bernstein, it was another 15 years after that fame-making debut before he became the Philharmonic’s music director. And it is certainly unusual, if not unprecedented, for someone so young to be given the keys to two of the world’s most storied orchestras.

That Mäkelä has been entrusted with so much is a testament to how enthusiastically musicians have embraced him. When I watched him rehearsing with the New York Philharmonic before his debut with the orchestra in December 2022, it was obvious why players like him.

Orchestral rehearsals can be draining, largely because of all the stop-and-start pauses to go back and work a spot, the conductor’s “uhs” and “hmms,” and the deflating time it takes to flap the pages in the score and find the moment in question.

Mäkelä’s rehearsing felt uncannily free of all that. He managed to give his comments — succinct, specific, smiling — as he turned the pages; he seemed to know what he wanted and how to cordially, clearly get it. The soufflé never sank, and, without seeming rushed or harried, the energy never ebbed.

He creates a happy workplace for players, which is not necessarily the same thing as creating good music for audiences. That sense of cordial clarity in his music-making can turn some of his performances square and bland, like a Brahms Fourth Symphony with the Oslo Philharmonic. Filmed without an audience — his term in Norway began amid the lockdown restrictions of the 2020-21 season — it is forceful but slack, maintaining crispness while gradually losing propulsion.

And while that orchestra is polished in a 2022 recording of Sibelius’s seven symphonies , there is a feeling of clean, flavorless trudge in Mäkelä’s two subsequent albums with the Orchestre de Paris featuring Stravinsky’s early ballets .

There was quite a difference when he brought that Paris ensemble to Carnegie Hall last month to reprise some of the Stravinsky. “The Firebird” still valued pure sound over drama, with extremes of texture that didn’t quite spark, but “The Rite of Spring” was more of a revelation, a shivery and poised combination of perfumed silkiness and brutality, as if an Hermès scarf was being ritualistically stabbed with a machete.

A Dvorak Ninth Symphony filmed with the Concertgebouw is fabulously played and excitingly taut, the Largo tender. It may be that Mäkelä’s performances get better as his collaborators do: Thursday’s concert in Chicago, too, demonstrated intensity as well as lucidity.

Some offstage drama spiced up the event. The star pianist Yuja Wang, with whom Mäkelä was recently in a romantic relationship, was supposed to join for a Bartok concerto, but waited until last week to cancel. She was replaced by the cellist Sol Gabetta, her tone rich yet delicate in Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1.

The orchestra played with a transparency that let the harmonies really sound in the uneasy stillness of the second movement’s start, and later there was such unity in the violas that it truly gave the sensation of a single person playing. Mäkelä guided with exquisite care a moment that I hadn’t ever taken much notice of, a passing, poignant bit of pastoral happiness for bassoon, clarinet and flute.

Here and in Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, the quality of the wind soloists — particularly sensitive and eloquent in this generally superb and powerful orchestra — stood as one of the major legacies of the 13-year tenure of Riccardo Muti , Mäkelä’s predecessor (and 54 years his senior).

Mäkelä’s interpretive neutrality — that clarity and sometimes bloodless judiciousness — can be an advantage in Shostakovich, letting the composer’s extremity and ambiguity speak for themselves. (Even the concert’s non-Shostakovich opener, the Finnish composer Sauli Zinovjev’s “Batteria,” conveyed a Shostakovichian mood of alternately furious and stunned emotional burden.)

In the symphony, the players exuded a sense of freedom while being shaped with patient deliberation. That deliberate quality in Mäkelä, which has elsewhere ended up dull, here ratcheted the tension, which built within movements and over the work as a whole. This was never harsh or overstated Shostakovich, but it accumulated real impact.

Tall and lanky, Mäkelä is a rivetingly — some have said distractingly — energetic presence during concerts, bobbing up and down, sometimes crouching, sometimes leaning back a little, as if surfing. His elbows tend to be relaxed except for huge downbeats, brought crashing from well above his head, and thwacks of the baton across his body.

For those who fear a cookie-cutter prodigy, he has some welcome quirks. He has shown a taste for cross-chronological juxtapositions , and in Oslo led a bit of Lully while striking the beat on the podium with the kind of large staff conductors used during the Baroque period.

Some critics have attacked the broad portfolio he has precociously accumulated. But he is hardly the first conductor to maintain more than one directorship at a time. As Hannah Edgar of The Chicago Tribune pointed out on Facebook, the mid-20th-century maestro Fritz Reiner was savaged by critics for not spending enough time in Chicago — and his tenure there is now considered one of the high points of American orchestral history. The Mäkelä era may not deliver on its promise, but not because there are any set rules about what kind of relationship between a city, an ensemble and a conductor brings the best results.

At the end of Thursday’s concert, there was a roar, as there had been at the start. The applause would have gone on considerably longer, but Mäkelä — like Muti, who would eventually wave goodbye to the crowd to tell them it was time to go — cut it off. There were donors to greet, and repeats of the program on Friday and Saturday. He was just getting started.

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Producer: B.P. Cooper, Rick Montgomery. Stars : Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak, Sharon Maughan, David Figlioli, Judith Drake. Review Score: Summary: Three roommates discover a camera that can take photos of the future, and become caught in a spiral of ensuring that their timeline is never altered.
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Time Lapse movie plot. As part of his research, the dead scientist (Mr Bezzerides) set his strange device to take a photo of the housemates' lounge at 8 pm each night, but one day when apparently tinkering with his camera and viewing events even further forward he is horrified to see a Polaroid taken 2 weeks into the future appearing to depict his own death.
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Time Lapse. 2014 · 1 hr 43 min. TV-MA. Horror · Sci-Fi · Thriller. Three friends scheming to misuse a mysterious machine that takes photos 24 hours into the future begin to see disturbing and scary pictures develop. Subtitles: English. Starring: Danielle Panabaker Matt O'Leary George Finn Sharon Maughan Amin Joseph. Directed by: Bradley King.
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Film Review: ‘Time Lapse’

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Reviewed online, San Francisco, May 12, 2015. Running time: 104 MIN.

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