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The Chronology Protection Case

USA 2002
produced by
Jay Kensinger for Woodspoon, Modvec
directed by Jay Kensinger
starring Jay Kensinger, Kaite McGrew, Evan Hunt, Breann Beal, Michelle Franco, Helen Ewan, Mark Jordan, Bill Karwin, Robert Jones, Steve Bordwell
screenplay by Jay Kensinger, based on a story by Paul Levinson

featurette

review by
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Forensic scientist Phil D'Amato (Jay Kensinger) recieves a call from a Lauren Goldring (Breann Beal), who claims her husband has gone missing under mysterious circumstances, but insists it's not a case for the missing persons department but for a forensic with an interest in quantum physics - because you know, her husband was a quantum physicist working on a project investigating quantum signalling, which would be the first step towards time travel. D'Amato thinks the woman is overreacting concerning the disappearance of her husband, but he listens to her. Then her husband turns up the victim of a drive-by shooting, in other words an completely random act of violence - and that should be that, right? Not in the eyes of Lauren though, who insists there was another reason for his death. Now D'Amato knows she is overreacting - until she turns up the very next day.

D'Amato turns to a journalist friend of his (Evan Hunt), who tells him that not only Lauren's husband but most of the scientists involved with the project have died one way or another, and it might all be caused by ... the universe - inasmuch as every sort of time travelling would alter history and therefore cause a paradox, which simply must not happen, which is why chronology has to be protected, which is why all those involved with the project might have to die. But why didn't all of them yet, and is there a way to save them?

On his way home, D'Amato has a near-fatal car accident, and when he comes to and calls his journalist friend, he learns his friend has died. So now the universe is after him - or is it?

D'Amato tries to reach one of the two surviving scientists involved in the project, but he blocks off all questions and tries to distance himself from the project as much as possible - not entirely convincingly though. D'Amato wants to publish his findings on the internet, but then he has a near-fatal heart-attack, and only comes to again thanks to Jennifer Fenwick (Kaite McGrew), now the last surviving scientist on the project (the man D'Amato has talked to has killed himself soon afterwards).

The two of them put their minds together and come up with an explanation why the universe hasn't killed them yet as well: Because they did not seriously want to publish anything yet (though D'Amato came close twice and was almost killed on both occasions). Now there's a problem of course: The findings are there no matter what, so how to keep them from being published - to which D'Amato has a brilliant idea: Since Jennifer Fenwick is the only one involved with the project still alive, she will be able to give the findings a whole different spin, send other scientists off into a whole bunch of directions other than time travel, let them lose themselves in a whole different set of ideas maybe forever ...

This seems to work, as the universe seems to reward D'Amato and Jennifer by letting them fall in love with each other, or is this just a natural reaction? Plus, why does it allow D'Amato to forget a tape chronicling his findings, to be found by someone else for sure?

 

Interesting sci-fi-whodunnit that takes very big, scientific-sounding ideas and brings them down to a level where they no longer sound brain heavy but actually work pretty well as the driving force of a genre story - which doesn't mean there aren't still twists and turns aplenty. The directorial effort of this film is solid and subtle. Sure, it cannot always obscure its low budget (but hey, this was started as a students project), but then again filling the film with CGI-effects (which almost suggests itself, regarding the subject matter) would have only destroyed the story.

In all, a pretty nice effort - and by the way, the ending comes off as way more ironic than I have made it to be in my synopsis.

 

By the way, if you want to see the film, just follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrRiFZ9rGtg

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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