No./ 12 When time travel gets trippy
RULE 1: TIME IS NOT LINEAR
he idea for , the fourth film from filmmaker team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, first began germinating in 2015. “Apparently, physicists are pretty well decided that time is not linear in any particular way,” Moorhead explains. “It’s just that that’s how we perceive it. Justin threw this idea at me: if time is not linear,that way? Now, this is our pop understanding of it. Of course, we are mere indie filmmakers. But we found that interesting. And also absolutely terrifying.” Having previously tackled time loops in their 2017 film, the cosmic headscratcher , the pair began workshopping ideas, working within the ‘growing block universe’ idea — “the theory that the future isn’t set yet,” as Benson explains. “The past and present are, but the future is yet to be created.” So there would be no going forward in time. With the rough physics in place, the pair began working on their concept.
