Isn't that what everyone wants? To find that special someone who makes you all fluttery inside? Well, in the movie "TiMER", everyone wants it just a little too much in my opinion.
Una (Emma Caulfield) is a 30 year old orthodontist. She's looking for true love, just like everyone else. Except in this reality, looking for true love means waiting for the timer to run out. That's right - just about everyone opts to get the TiMER, the countdown to the moment you meet your true love, your One. It's beyond being fashionable - it's an asset to the culture. Those who don't have them are looked at as outsiders, odd, or even conflicted or broody.
Well, the thing is it only starts counting down once both partners have had their TiMERs installed. Una's is blank for most of the movie. Tired of waiting around for her TiMER to start up, she starts a relationship with Mikey (John Patrick Amedori), a checkup clerk at the local grocery. A 22-year-old musician with a quickly expiring TiMER himself (or so it seems...dun dun DUN!), they start a friends-with-benefits sort of deal. As you can imagine, it turns into more than a simple sex-buddy - they actually develop feelings for each other.
As the time keeps going on, Una worries about her blank TiMER, her immature boyfriend, and the fact that everyone else in the world - including her 14-year-old brother - seem to have found their true loves.
This is an insane world I hope I never see. These people depend so much on this timer to tell them with whom they fall in love and what their futures will be. Their entire lives revolve around it. People's timers zero out at midnight the day they meet that one, and so they go through that whole day, waiting until contact with the right set of eyes sets off the polytechnic tones on the timer. But the thing is, it seems like some people are disappointed with whom they are matched. They had expectations, hopes, about who they would find. Then they find them, and it doesn't maybe reach that height.
Though the scenario is too crazy to contemplate actually living through, this was a good movie. It was funny and witty with a really out-there but interesting plot. The actors were really good - seriously, John Amedori seriously needs to call me - and it brought out a lot of deep issues. Do we have control over our futures? Can we recognize true love when it's in front of us? At some point, Una admits that she doesn't know what love is, that she is waiting for her timer to light up.
The one thing I'll say though: I don't like the message I got in the end. I won't spoil it, I'll just say that I didn't like it. If anyone watches it, you can probably figure out what I mean in reference to the paragraph directly above. I just felt like the entire movie was building up to one message, then in the last ten minutes totally went in a completely different direction.
Overall, it's an entertaining and interesting movie. So grab a date and get on Netflix, and see if the sparks fly.
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