Overall the film was an 'OK', the 5 is for the "I see what they could have been doing there" factor. There was decent build-up, acting was OK but not especially something to write home about. I presume it was low budget and they did well on that score. People expect way too much these days however I do think there was some lazy writing involved. It should have followed through.
SPOILERS IN THIS POST!!! I think largely it was an amateur (in the real sense - I am not being derogatory) attempt at being mysterious with the classic shocker 'deep breath' at the end. Re the title it could simply be the case of an out of body experience and a final goodbye (way too obvious though) In my opinion this is the story: Aaron is sent off to war and in the process of being shot happens to be in the right place at the right time. By some twist of fate he is ripped out of existence in his 'proper' time line just as the bullet enters his body and ends up catapulted to his future time line where he wouldn't have existed anyway. Thought: he never actually leaves the spot where he was shot. Every day that passes is just mere microseconds on the war-ground. Therefore, his wound reopening is actually time catching up with him in real-time - his own time. For Aaron, 20years did not pass. He merely blinked. Human energy is so great that the ones around him share in his journey; blonde lady is actually correct. It's telepathic wavelengths. But not the alien kind.
The visions of really low budget green hue are in fact soldiers scurrying around the battlefield caught in the time fracture with Aaron, but unaware of the anomaly as they are far enough away - possibly his friend who left him behind? Blonde lady: She is the Mulder and Scully conspiracy theorist who clumsily goes about trying to set the world straight. Basically of no benefit to the story line other than set seeds of doubt. She is just trying to prove her theories true. And they are. To some extent. She's just a little cuckoo.
When Aaron awoke at the end - it would have been nice to have had a better hint at his surrounding area. e.g. is he waking up on the ground while he is being shot in his original time? or was he in fact transported to another planet? Was his friend's guilt such that there was a rift that became unstable and sucked him right through? I think he was unable to speak because the microseconds which were passing took their time to catch up with his higher brain functions. (I think I thought about all this waaaaay too much!). We were never really invited to witness his demise so the 'wake up' was a little odd.
ANOTHER VIEW The leaf with blood - reincarnation? After all - the human spirit has always carried an air of mystery. Maybe the tree and the river are all linked. When he died on the battlefront, he was reborn a sapling. His physical embodiment was just a reflection of the remnant energy; a bit like the Dr Who regeneration. Hence the short lifespan. Unfortunately, the sapling was always injured and would not have survived. Hence, Aaron's eventual demise. Re absorbed into the earth.
*sigh*
SPOILERS IN THIS POST!!! I think largely it was an amateur (in the real sense - I am not being derogatory) attempt at being mysterious with the classic shocker 'deep breath' at the end. Re the title it could simply be the case of an out of body experience and a final goodbye (way too obvious though) In my opinion this is the story: Aaron is sent off to war and in the process of being shot happens to be in the right place at the right time. By some twist of fate he is ripped out of existence in his 'proper' time line just as the bullet enters his body and ends up catapulted to his future time line where he wouldn't have existed anyway. Thought: he never actually leaves the spot where he was shot. Every day that passes is just mere microseconds on the war-ground. Therefore, his wound reopening is actually time catching up with him in real-time - his own time. For Aaron, 20years did not pass. He merely blinked. Human energy is so great that the ones around him share in his journey; blonde lady is actually correct. It's telepathic wavelengths. But not the alien kind.
The visions of really low budget green hue are in fact soldiers scurrying around the battlefield caught in the time fracture with Aaron, but unaware of the anomaly as they are far enough away - possibly his friend who left him behind? Blonde lady: She is the Mulder and Scully conspiracy theorist who clumsily goes about trying to set the world straight. Basically of no benefit to the story line other than set seeds of doubt. She is just trying to prove her theories true. And they are. To some extent. She's just a little cuckoo.
When Aaron awoke at the end - it would have been nice to have had a better hint at his surrounding area. e.g. is he waking up on the ground while he is being shot in his original time? or was he in fact transported to another planet? Was his friend's guilt such that there was a rift that became unstable and sucked him right through? I think he was unable to speak because the microseconds which were passing took their time to catch up with his higher brain functions. (I think I thought about all this waaaaay too much!). We were never really invited to witness his demise so the 'wake up' was a little odd.
ANOTHER VIEW The leaf with blood - reincarnation? After all - the human spirit has always carried an air of mystery. Maybe the tree and the river are all linked. When he died on the battlefront, he was reborn a sapling. His physical embodiment was just a reflection of the remnant energy; a bit like the Dr Who regeneration. Hence the short lifespan. Unfortunately, the sapling was always injured and would not have survived. Hence, Aaron's eventual demise. Re absorbed into the earth.
*sigh*
