Time loop drama is a twisted depiction of codependence
are shockingly simple: a woman called Jen , a man called Dan , and a path around a pond. However, it's clear that the couple has been running in circles a long time before they put their jogging shoes on that morning. That Jen is constantly trying to outpace Dan, and furious that he keeps interrupting her track-time listening – a podcast on the pros and cons of divorce – makes it pretty clear that she's determined to take a new route by herself.
But the universe seems hell-bent on keeping them together, as all the exits from the track seem to have disappeared, and Jen and Dan are stuck with each other, looping round and round, back over their own tracks, and rehashing the same moments – quite literally, as their circular path reveals itself to be a physical manifestation of a time loop.
Writer/director Dane Elcar originally developed this shadowy version of the time loop conceit for his award-winning single-actor 2018 short,"The Pond." Yet the addition of the warring couple does more than simply extend the run time. It provides a dark and savage twist, one that has as much in common with Strindberg, Cassavetes, and Baumbach as it does with H.G. Wells and.
, while Woertendyke tries to ignore the suppurating wound that was once the heart of their relationship.takes place in real time makes the accelerated collapse of their relationship even more disturbingly realistic. But that's not all that's accelerating, and Elcar takes full advantage of the horrifying ramifications of the couple running through and into their own paths.
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