In Tristram Geary ’s Echo / Back , a unusual virus tap that enables the infect to sentence travel , but only in very brusk bursts — mere instant into the past times or future . The resolution are mostly chaotic , both for the world at large and the film ’s protagonist , a thief who apply his strange ability to outmaneuver police in an extended fight scene .

There ’s no duologue here as the time - traveller weighs in with an exhibition - heavy , vocalisation - over monologue throughout the film . But despite Echo / Back ’s prompt seven - mo running time , you really get a sensory faculty of its high - conception premiss — and how such a small , specific alteration to our conception of time would change reality as we bonk it .

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