Notice! This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s Time Cut.
Although Netflix Time cut focuses less on explaining how your time travel works, but provides some subtle clues about how your characters move back and forth between timelines. Set mainly in 2003, Time cut is intended to be yet another addition to the long list of coming-of-age films that attempt to transform their narratives into a science fiction story. However, despite its best efforts to rank among the subgenre’s best films, Time cut It failed to make its mark among viewers and critics and holds a disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score of 13%.
The film’s low critical rating highlights how it gets a lot of things wrong and struggles to establish itself as a unique addition to the genre. However, despite its pitfalls, the Netflix horror film also manages to get a few things right. For example, unlike most time travel films, Time Cut attempts to explain exactly how its central time machine works. The explanation isn’t scientifically accurate, but it’s hard not to notice how the film doesn’t completely gloss over the mechanics of its time travel.
Time Cut’s Time Machine and Antimatter Explained
The film’s portrayal of time travel is heavily fictional
Almost halfway through its running time, Time cut features a scene in which Lucy and Quinn try to figure out how the central time machine works. They learn that it fires a laser from one end and antimatter from the other. According to the film, the interaction between matter and antimatter particles at the two points of the machine opens a microscopic wormhole. This wormhole, in turn, becomes a gateway for characters to travel to any point in time.
While it’s interesting how the film tries to involve some scientific jargon in its explanation of time travel, a lot of it doesn’t really make sense. The concept of intertwining matter and antimatter could have intriguing implications in quantum mechanics – where matter is any physical substance that has mass and occupies space, while antimatter consists of corresponding particles that have charge, parity and time inverted from “ordinary matter.” However, Time cut doesn’t seem to take his own explanation very seriously and focuses more on using time travel as a vessel to drive its drama.
Who Really Created the Time Cut Time Machine and Why
Quinn did this in search of revenge
Time cutThe final twist suggests that Quinn made the time machine. Although the film doesn’t explicitly mention this, its 2003 timeline reveals that Quinn has always been interested in physics and was fascinated by time travel. The film also implies that in Lucy’s original timeline, Quinn was heavily bullied by his peers at school and no one did anything to look out for him. He spent most of his early years at school without friends, what made him resentful of people at his school.
To ensure no one catches him for his crimes, Quinn used his time machine to Time cut also disappear after committing the murders, leaving no trace of his actions in the present.
Quinn also confessed his feelings to Summer through a letter, but Summer rejected him saying she couldn’t love him like that. This caused Quinn to harbor feelings of extreme hatred towards Summer and her friends. Therefore, to get revenge, he traveled back in time and killed them. To ensure no one catches him for his crimes, Quinn used his time machine to Time cut also disappear after committing the murders, leaving no trace of his actions in the present. However, little did he know that Lucy would eventually find her time machine and save Summer.