Netflix's new slasher science fiction film Time Cut has explored various angles of time traveling, with thrilling elements at its core. Outer Banks star Madison Bailey has played one of the lead roles alongside Antonia Gentry and Griffin Gluck.
Director Hannah Macpherson has portrayed time traveling through a nodal point, a central time travel machine. The story revolves around a high school student named Summer Field, played by Antonia Gentry, who gets brutally murdered by a serial killer in an after-party celebration of the Spring Fling in her high school.
Trending
Her town previously witnessed similar murders where she lost her friends Brian, Val, and Emmy. After 20 years, Summer's younger sister Lucy accidentally comes across a time machine and travels back to the year 2003, just two days before her sister's death.
As seen in the movie, when matter and anti-matter interact from two points on the machine, it results in the emergence of a microscopic wormhole. It then becomes the gateway for various characters in the movie to travel across time. Time travel has mostly been used as the primary force to drive the plot.
How does the central time machine work in Time Cut?
As the movie unravels, Lucy embarks on multiple adventures in the past and finds a serial killer, also known as The Sweetly Slasher. Time Cut has explored the concept of time travel through a central time machine. As per reports, even though the explanation does not have a lot of science in it, it is a unique approach to controlling multiple timelines.
In Time Cut, the viewers will reportedly witness the interaction between matter and anti-matter that opens up a gateway in the space-time continuum - a microscopic wormhole. This eventually becomes the passage for different characters to travel through the timelines, back and forth. Lucy uses the same to go back to 2003 and then returns to the present to kill the slasher responsible for the deaths.
She uses the central time machine to go back 20 years, to stop her sister's murder. Director Macpherson has reportedly said:
"Lucy has to literally choose between her sister’s life and her own existence. I just thought that was so brilliant. To be able to dig into the thematics of family — what are we willing to sacrifice?"
Who invents the time machine in Time Cut?
The central time machine was invented by Quinn, a close friend of Summer. Quinn, a lover of physics and a science geek, had always been bullied by his classmates. There was no one to take care of him and even his love for Summer is rejected. It eventually becomes clear that Quinn supposedly invents the time machine, to travel back in time and avenge himself.
Who is the slasher in the movie Time Cut?
As Lucy finds the central time machine created by future Quinn, she travels back to 2003. But she also unknowingly changes events in the past. Lucy rescues Quinn from a group of bullies in the new timeline while in the original one, they dropped him into a river.
In the original time, Quinn becomes desperate to seek vengeance for the mean treatment he received from his classmates. So, he eventually turns into a slasher over the years, creates the time machine, and travels back to kill all those who bullied him.
However, at the end of Time Cut, we see that Lucy kills future Quinn (the slasher) and makes his past version free to move on the right path. As the cameras roll back to 2003, we see Lucy living happily with her elder sister Summer, who has also accepted her love for her classmate Emmy.
Time Cut is now available for streaming on Netflix.
Reply
