Time Cut

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This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s Time Cut.

This post contains mentions of murder.

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To Lucy’s surprise, she accidentally discovers a time machine one day that sends her back to 2003.

Time Cut reveals that Lucy and Summer’s parents were content with having Summer as their only child.

They never planned to have another child until Summer was murdered by the Sweetly Slasher.

Madison Bailey as Lucy Field and Antonia Gentry as Summer Field

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Owing to this, when Lucy returns to 2024, she notices that nothing is the same anymore.

Even her parents do not recognize her, giving her no reason to stay in the future.

However, it is hard not to notice howTime Cut’s ending does not make a lot of sense.

Madison Bailey & Antonia Gentry looking at each other in a bedroom in Time Cut

A teenage girl goes back in time to the early 2000s to save her sister from a dangerous killer.

It creates a major bootstrap paradox where Lucy exists without ever being “created.”

He used to like Summer, but she, too, laughed at him when he was bullied.

In a brief scene, Quinn and Lucy discuss how the time machine inTime Cutworks.

Antonia Gentry as Summer Field and Griffin Gluck as Quinn in Time Cut

Time Cutwas primarily filmed in Winnipeg, Canada.

Even when it comes to wormholes, they are a theoretical possibility in general relativity.

Many plot developments inTime Cutcreate this paradox, but the movie avoids focusing on being free from plot holes.

Madison Bailey as Lucy Field in Time Cut

TheNetflix horror movieintroduces a simple idea/rule where the time machine travels to the past with the time traveler.

This allows the time machine to exist in whichever timeline the traveler visits.

With its time-travel ideas,Time Cutcan delve into multitudes of narrative avenues with potential sequels.

Griffin Gluck’s Quinn carefully listening to Lucy in Time Cut

However, the sequel’s fate will ultimately be determined byTime Cut’s performance on Netflix.

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