This movie starts a bit sleepily, but really ends up being an enjoyable film. Despite its length of only around 20 minutes, it is really able to take the audience on a journey through time and thought. This film brought up the idea of the crazy ways in which one event in life can affect another seemingly unrelated event. This film reminded me of a shorter version of The Butterfly Effect. In this film, Ashton Kutcher's character keeps traveling back in time in order to try and fix all of the terrible things that happened to him and his friends as children, only to keep finding his life in a worse position every time he returns to adulthood. He is only able to bring closure to things by going all the way back in time to when he was a fetus in his mother's womb and using his own umbilical cord to strangle himself to death. In a similar way, this film raises the question of how time traveling has affected the character's life. Was his sight as a child a sure sign that that is how he was going to have to die? Was there any other option for the course of his life? Was there any free will in his life or was that surrendered when he chose to travel through time rather than let life take it's nature course?
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