To me, it didn't seem to be in the present. The way they dressed and how miles said study something like airplanes or computers, something of the future. Anybody know?
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A) Miles mentions an "HMO" when talking on the radio to his wife about her hospital stay. Not sure when that acronym came into the common vernacular but it can't have been more than a couple of decades or so.
B) Lee Lee's character's glasses are square-framed and quite modern for a female.
C) Miles's walkie-talkie/radio is shown on his hip in one scene and is clearly a modern style.
Obviously, the idea was that the movie was supposed to be set sometime in the past but there are far too many anacronisms to make it believable. Who actually travels by train anymore anyway??????
"Who actually travels by train anymore anyway??????"
Amtrak alone carried 25 million passengers in 2007. That must count for something.
I had the same problem with this film, until I figured out the thing was filmed in Bulgaria: European trains still look like that (although the couplers are, I think, different, and the trucks [road wheel assemblies] are a LOT different from what's shown). This was obviously shot on Bulgarian sound stages with train interiors that look like American trains of 60 years ago, but the CGI'd exterior train shots (going about 120 miles per hour, often!) are of modern engines coupled to old-fashioned cars.
But as someone else said, from other details, it's a modern setting of a very old-fashioned story.
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I agree. I thought it was very 'setty' - it could have come from a stage play. And the story is as old and probably older than Faust's Mephistopheles.
shareI'm watching it now on Movie Central, and I was thinking the same thing, that it looks like one of those movies adapted from a play. Just something about the limited sets I guess.
shareIt looks like northern Canada to me- given that the officials speak English.
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leelee's character also used a cell phone early on in the movie. I thought it was supposed to be set in the past sometime until she had that out...
share> Who actually travels by train anymore anyway??????
People going to Maple Creek.
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Who actually travels by train anymore anyway??????
Night trains are still common in Europe, even today.
Intentionally ambiguous, in my opinion, which was one of many things that gave it a very effective, creepy otherworldiness in my opinion.
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Danny Glover used his cell phone to call his wife so it has to be somewhat modern day. Since cell phones used to be expensive and Glover wast struggling to pay bills with his income
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That would have been cool & creepy if they were all dead. I also was confused by the time period because of the way Leelee's parents were dressed. Her mom had on like a 20's flapper hat?!
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The time setting was meant to be ambiguous. It's kind of like the Tim Burton Batman movies. It adds to the suspense and dark film noir atmosphere.
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