This film deserves more attention.
Aside from some snippets of cheesy dialogue, the film is pretty smart, you have to think a little.
This isn't a stupid time machine movie like The Time Machine or some other atrocities I can't think of right now. The machine itself is pretty neat and the ending hits you pretty hard. So see it.
I just watched it for the first time and while I liked it, I also thought that it was just a tad strange. I couldn't figure out at first why the girls (and guys)kept taking off their shoes and their pants when they went into the machine but then it was explained later in the film that they couldn't wear anything made of metal. It was probably explained earlier, but I missed it due to a bad hearing impairment and no closed captioning.
Anyway, I thought that it was a strange movie, and I suppose that I'll just have to get used to it. I got it as part of a 20-movie DVD pack from amazon.
I liked it a lot too, it's a movie I know I'll watch again.
There's some rough edges to it for sure, and the start isn't that promising. But it gets much better the more you are drawn into the story.
Nice to not see any well known actors. Helped make me believe what was happening.
The style reminds me in some ways of Primer, which was much more recent of course, and now I believe may have been inspired inspired by this earlier film.
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This film may have been influenced by "Walkabout" with Jenny Agutter starring as a desert wandering heroine.
The music here is exquisitely matched to the stark yet beautiful landscapes of central Idaho's Craters of the Moon region.
I thought that the mute girl was one of the third generation survivors that had attached herself to the wandering Transferreds.
And then, as I mentioned in another of this film's threads, this all might be merely a figment of Karen's damaged mind. There were a lot of victims of drug experimenting in the 70s and Fonda may have wanted to show how the damaged ones may view their reality.