TimeCrimes [2008]

TimeCrimes [2008]

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The protagonist Hector (Karra Elejalde) is a mid-aged man with a lovely wife and a new country home, part of which is still in renovation. One day he sits on a lawn chair outside his home, surveying the nearby wooded hillside through a set of binoculars, after receiving a strange phone call. Nearby his wife has just assembled a new coffee table, and, banteringly, he bets he will buy the groceries if the table fits through the front door. Then as his wife (Candela Fernández) returns to take out the car to buy groceries, having lost the bet, he catches sight of a woman removing her shirt amidst the trees and curious, goes to investigate. Finding the woman—but supine, naked and senseless—he approaches but is attacked and stabbed in the arm with a pair of scissors by a sinister figure wrapped in a grotesque pink head bandage. He runs through the wood to a house where, finding a first aid kit, he bandages his arm. He also finds a walkie-talkie and, startled by a clap of thunder, takes the advice of a man who informs him over the device that his attacker is approaching, and runs up a hill to join the man in a laboratory atop the hill. The man in the laboratory (Nacho Vigalondo) convinces him to hide inside a peculiar scientific contraption filled with liquid, and before Hector can resist, the scientist closes it shut. Moments later, Hector emerges — only to find that it is about an hour earlier.

Viewing his house through his binoculars, Hector sees himself as in the past and makes a phone call to his double, but hangs up when he answers it. He has returned to a point in time when there exists a double of himself whom the scientist calls Hector #1 and the time-travelled version, Hector #2. Hector #2 feels jealous of this other man, his former self, in his own house with his wife. The scientist explains to him the principle of time travel and emphasizes how imperative it is that Hector #1 follows the same timeline and gets into the time machine. Otherwise his (Hector #2's) life as he knows it will be over and the scientist's career will be finished too. The scientist asks Hector #2 to wait quietly in the house and avoid interfering with anything for one hour, until Hector #1 enters the time machine as he did, so his identity would become one again. Failing to understand the complexity of his situation, Hector #2 was too curious to follow the order. Hector #2 leaves the scientist's compound after stealing a small white car. He drives past a young woman on her bicycle (Barbara Goenaga), whom he recognizes as the undressing woman. Stopping the car to think, he gets bumped off the road by a red truck and crashes into a tree. His head is injured by the impact, so he removes the bandage from his arm and wraps it around his head. Seeing his reflection in the rear view mirror, he begins to realize that he is the bandaged man who has stabbed his pre-time-travel self. The woman comes over and asks if he is okay. Realising that he is now responsible for making Hector #1 follow the same course of events, so that his own timeline can persist, he steals the scissors that the woman uses to fix his bandage (she has the scissors because she is a hairdresser). With combined persuasion and intimidation, he leads her into the woods across from his home and forces her to remove her outer clothes. When she tries to escape he grabs at her and they both fall off a ledge. The girl falls onto her back and is knocked senseless; he realises she must be found nude, so he pulls off her panties. When his double (Hector #1) arrives, he stabs him in the arm with the scissors and scares him off, the same way he recalls being scared off.

However, he then hears the woman scream and goes back to find her gone. He sees the lights at his house turned on, and he chases her there. Entering his house he is knocked down the stairs by the table thrown at him. After recovering, he chases her to the roof, and when he tries to grab her, he pulls her off to her death. However, looking down it appears to be his wife, lying near a ladder propped up against the wall. He then decides that he cannot leave things as they are and must enter the time machine again. Remembering Hector #1, he asks the scientist over the walkie-talkie to make something up to convince Hector #1 to get into the time machine. He takes the car that his wife returned, and drives back to the lab at the top of the hill to use the machine again.

When the scientist then attempts to sabotage Hector #2's plan to time travel, he realizes that the scientist knows more than he has revealed. He makes the scientist reveal that Hector #2 was not the first to emerge from the machine. In fact a future Hector (Hector #3) appeared first and told him to act surprised at Hector #2's arrival just seconds later. The scientist also says that later, sounding desperate over the walkie-talkie, Hector #3 told him that all has failed, and that he should prevent Hector #2 from time-travelling again at all costs. Hearing the police sirens, Hector #2 decides to do it anyway and forces the scientist to use the machine on him, discarding his pink bandage.

Having become Hector #3, he takes a red truck to go after Hector #2. He bumps Hector #2 in the white car off the road, but in the process crashes his own red vehicle, mangling his face even more. He uses the walkie-talkie to contact the scientist, telling him that all is lost. The girl, having escaped the bandaged Hector #2, walks into him and screams. He calms her down, sits down to rest and falls asleep. She wakes him up some time later, telling him she that she has seen a house (Hector's house) nearby. She helps him there and, leaving him resting in the kitchen, goes upstairs to check the house. Hector's wife then appears, telling him that a bandaged man is breaking into their house and that she has called the police.

Realising that it is not his wife whom Hector #2 is to accidentally kill on the roof, Hector #3 hides his wife in the garage after placing the ladder against the roof, and goes upstairs to ensure everything transpires exactly as he remembers. He cuts the young woman's hair shorter claiming it will disguise her, wraps her with his wife's jacket, and has her hide upstairs from Hector #2. He then takes his wife across the lawn to the deck chairs. They sit there waiting for the rest of the grisly scene to unfold. He is now confident that Hector #2 will do as he (Hector #3) did and end up back in the time machine, and having placed the ladder, the police finding the dead girl at the foot of the ladder, will conclude a burglary or accident has gone fatally wrong. Having realized the troubles and tragedy he caused, Hector finally decided to interfere no more. The movie concludes with Hector #3 waiting peacefully with his wife in their garden, watching Hector #2 drive off to scare Hector #1 into entering the machine, then enter the machine himself, therefore completing the cycle, and Hector's identity will become one again.