Dimensions
- by Antony Neely, directed by Sloan U’Ren
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- Dimensions by Antony Neely, directed by Sloan U’Ren (Cambridge Film Festival, 21 September 2011).
Imagine you’re a young boy in 1921 Cambridge when your equally young first love dies in a deep well. What would you do? Naturally, you’d vow to become a great scientist in an artsy movie so you could go back in time to alter the tragic event.
Apparently, people in early 20th-century Cambridge espouse many wise thoughts about time, parallel universes that encompass every possible combination of events again and again, and something about every decision every made creating a branch point. In the end, it's difficult to make a cohesive model of time from the plotline of Dimensions, but we tried our best to do so in our plot notes.
Apparently, people in early 20th-century Cambridge espouse many wise thoughts about time, parallel universes that encompass every possible combination of events again and again, and something about every decision every made creating a branch point. In the end, it's difficult to make a cohesive model of time from the plotline of Dimensions, but we tried our best to do so in our plot notes.
—Michael Main
Annie: Are you ready to leave?
Stephen: Yes.
Annie: How long will it take?
Stephen: I don’t know: seconds, decades, an eternity.
Annie: An eternity? For a few moments together?
Stephen: Yes.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1921 Cambridge
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: 12936 Cambridge
- Timeline Models
- Branching Timelines: a discussion that branches occur with each decision made, but no real clarity
- Time Travel Methods
- Chronoscopes: The portal is also a viewer of the past.
- Luggable Time Machine: The final portal, at the well, seems luggable enough.
- Possible Dream, Hallucination, et al.: The possibility occurs that Stephen did climb down after the jump rope, ended up in a coma, and is dreaming everything else.
- Time Portal
- Themes
- Save “Lois”!: Victoria is Stephen’s “Lois.”
- Stuck in Hypertime or Outside of Time: Robert is stuck, apparently long enough to become bald and for his clothes to dissolve.
- Viewing the Past
- Fictional Tags
- Parallel Universes or Dimensions: a discussion with no real clarity on parallel worlds
Variants
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- Dimensions by Antony Neely, directed by Sloan U’Ren (Cambridge Film Festival, 21 September 2011).
Indexer Notes
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- Credits—from the IMDb