tek's rating: ½

The Time Agent (24:47)
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This 2016 short film was presented by Dust in 2018.

A man from the future lives in the present, receiving missions to make small changes to the past, to prevent crimes in the future. One day he meets a girl named Yeesul, who is apparently going to kill herself. He doesn't want to interfere, but when she sees that he has seen her, things get complicated, and it becomes unclear whether she really would have killed herself or not. In any event, she doesn't. And she begins living with him, while she makes up her mind whether or not she wants to commit suicide. So it's obviously kind of a dark film, but not as dark as you'd think. In fact it's kind of amusing, in some ways. And it's just interesting watching the interactions between these two strangers. (It's a South Korean film, with English subtitles.) I don't really know what else to say. Except, despite the time travel premise, I don't think of it as science fiction so much as a drama.


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