It was interesting and I liked it, but I'm not sure if it's quite clever or disappeared up it's own bum. I liked Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook but for me the hole in the middle of it all is how they knew to shape the story the way they did - it's not exactly something you'd want to determine by randomly spagettifying the agents life. I guess that's the paradox of predestination and, to miss-quote, it can't be para-doctored😀
shareIt's a retelling of a Robert A. Heinlein short story. What you question as "disappear[ing] up it's own bum" is the unavoidable nature of the time travel paradox and the entire point of the plot.
shareI noticed Robert A. Heinlein in the credits and made a little note to find the story. I'm generally quite comfortable with time travel story lines but this one had a character in the future engineering the events to bring her/him-self into existence in the first place - which is one hell of a paradox (I think).
shareIt has been a while since I watched this film but I think it uses the "bootstrap paradox".
If you liked this, you may also like another time-paradox film called TimeCrimes (2007). It is in Spanish.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669
Oddly enough I did think the character was picking himself up by his own bootlaces at some point - not really the same thing but I see what you mean by 'bootstrap paradox'.
share