is a science fiction film, it also explores the most sensitive topic of racism in the United States today, and the open ending of the film brings heavy reflections to the audience.
"Meeting Yesterday" is an adaptation of the 2017 short film of the same name. The story is mainly about two talented high school students, CJ and Sebastian, who invented a time machine as they wished during the summer vacation of the second year of high school. But while celebrating happily, CJ learned that his brother was killed by the police accidentally, and was sad. I was sad and decided to try to go back to the past through this time machine to avoid this tragedy! The 15-minute short film is turned into a feature film
. In recent years, the movies like to be made into series or adapted from comics and novels. This seems to be a popular trend in Hollywood. In addition, there is a trend: some have potential Or short films with a lot of discussion are adapted and made into feature films, especially horror films are the most popular, such as the films "After the Lights" and "Selfie in Hell" are more famous classic examples. The film is adapted from a 15-minute short film of the same name in 2017. After Netflix bought the copyright, the concept of the short film was further developed and created, and it became an 86-minute feature film, except for the director Stefon In addition to Bristol's continued participation in directing, the leading actor and actress Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow also returned to the show! The egg tribute to the movie "Back to the Future"
"Meeting Yesterday" The whole movie is full of surprises, and from time to time there will be a surprise tribute to the movie "Back to the Future", such as "Back to the Future" starring Michael J ·Michael J Fox made a surprise cameo in the movie. He served as a nature teacher at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City in the movie. He also repeatedly exhorted the hero and heroine CJ and Sebastian about the danger of time travel, and At about 11 and a half minutes in the movie, there was a Flux Capacitor pictured with "Back to the Future" in the laboratory, full of interesting eggs from "Back to the Future"! The concept of time travel in the movie
The time and space theory in "Meeting Yesterday" is completely different from the "Avengers 4: Endgame" released some time ago. The time paradox of this movie is mainly based on The concept of "grandfather's paradox" means that you can influence or avoid an event by going back to the past or future time and space. The CJ of "Meeting Yesterday" also hopes to go back to July 4, 2019, a few days ago, to avoid his brother Calvin Walker (played by Jastro) being killed by the police, but the interesting thing is that In the second time travel, a bit of "fate paradox" was added, which means that no matter how you use time travel to change past events, it still cannot affect the present or future results. In order to avoid the manslaughter by the police, the heroine CJ in the movie decided to stop a supermarket robbery that happened before, but her partner Sebastian was shot and killed. The topic of racism is the theme show of this movie:
"Meeting Yesterday" In addition to this element of time travel, the most fascinating thing is that the movie successfully explores the most sensitive topic of racism in the United States today. The film satirizes the various social news that the white police have done justice to the blacks, and even cleverly makes time travel the strongest roar to reinforce this protest. The heroine goes back to the past time and time again, trying to save the black people time and time again. The elder brother was shot and killed by a white policeman. However, every time there is still a black death, but even so, the heroine CJ still does not give up trying to change the past. The slow-motion running scene at the end of the movie seems to symbolize the black will forever Don’t be discouraged and continue to pursue the right to survival, and you should not suffer unequal treatment because of different skin colors! The heavy and reflective movie ending
"Meeting Yesterday" looks like a light-hearted comedy movie, and incorporates science fiction elements into the movie, but in fact, the idea behind this movie But it is very heavy, and the open ending of the film even brings the audience a deeper level of reflection. This film only exposes a small part of the dark side of society, although we have no time machine to go back to the past and change some Has been made a big mistake, but weOnly tolerance and compassion can achieve a more complete fairness and justice. Perhaps the entertainment effect of the movie "Meeting Yesterday" is not as good as expected. In short, "Meeting Yesterday" is a science fiction movie. , But it successfully explored the most sensitive topic of racism in the United States today, and the open ending of the film also brought heavy reflections to the audience.
