One of my interests in time travel
While
the means to travel back in time have evaded me so far, there's a good
technique for travelling forward in time through watching movies.
So time-travel as a genre has been a fascination and I've got ideas about how it functions as a narrative device.
In
fact, if there was a subject that I would consider writing a thesis
about, I feel I could develop an essay and fiction combination that
would explore this potential.
Since I have time
now to indulge in sitting on the couch in front of the TV after
abandoning my teacher training, I caught up with this film that had
interested me last year.
Good Luck, Have Fun,
Don't Die is a surprising story with developments that lead into dark
satire and, no spoiler, an ambiguous ending that still manages to
resolve character arcs.
Actually, slight
spoiler, I think the ending shows it is similar to that famous
time-travel franchise Back To The Future and made me wonder if there was
an aspiration for a sequel.
However, Good
Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die will likely become one of those cult movies
that finds an audience outside of the cinemas since it didn't achieve
much success in those venues and lost money.
I don't want to spoil anything, so let's just say this film is worth watching if you like comedy horror and fluffy sci-fi with a biting commentary on contemporary life.
It shows how science fiction can be used as a device to reflect the present day, while leaving open the possibilities of how things could be different.
