by Eden
Average time until the loop begins (mean): About 16 minutes The cause of the loop or inciting incident: I watched The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and decided to do this Number of time loops (at least the ones I counted): 213 Lessons learned: Time […]
For the last movie for In the Loop, I decided to go with the earliest one I could find — Repeat Performance from 1947. It’s also a slight cheat since there’s really only one time loop, but it still counts. (I’m not claiming this is the first time loop movie — just the earliest one I could find.)
For the majority of The Fare, there are two characters — Harris (Gino Anthony Pesi), a cab driver; and Penny (Brinna Kelly, who wrote the movie), his mysterious passenger. The set is the inside of Harris’ cab. That’s it. That’s essentially the movie.
Most time loop movies follow the Groundhog Day formula — a “bad” person becomes “good” through trial and error, repeating things until they manage to get it right. But would that always be the case? In Timecrimes, if there’s a wrong choice to be made, Héctor is going to make it. And he’s going to keep making it over and over.
Christmas time loop movies are a thing. I have a list of at least 10 holiday-themed movies or TV episodes that feature a time loop. And it kind of makes sense — Christmas is all about traditions that repeat year after year. And in a practical sense, a time-loop movie allows for a limited setting and a limited number of characters as well as wardrobe changes. Christmas movies do need to be cheap.