Review of Mirage

Mirage (2018)
7/10
Butterfly effect
19 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
First of all I'm pleased to have watched this film dubbed in English. This film explores the butterfly effect like the film with the same namesake. It is an amalgamation of time travel concepts that was made famous from Back to the Future with the notion that any change made in the past can lead to a new time line being created...

There is a film called Frequency in which a person is able to communicate with someone from the past via an old fashioned Cv radio. This film uses a newer medium: the 1980s television and a camcorder.

A woman inadvertently communicates with boy, via this 1980s television & camcorder, that died 25 years ago after stumbling upon a neighbour whose wife is murdered. She convinces him to not go to the neighbor that night and the result of which is that his life is spared & her life changed from the one she had & knew. This is the Butterfly Effect of her action.

This film takes an interesting concept & goes with it full throttle. The protagonist does a good job at conveying the shock of living in a different time line and gradually piecing together a new Jigsaw. She refuses to accept the reality of this new time line & tries to replicate the conditions in which she may be able to change the past to the future of her previous time line.

It is more like the twelve monkeys than Back to the future in its bleakness but perhaps with a glimmer of hope at the end. It is very watchable.
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