Escape from the 21st Century
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- epic-stakes
- funny
Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hope, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
Our read · Escape from the 21st Century (2024) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal sci-fi · comedy · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The reading.
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