In the Blink of an Eye: A Film That Thinks It’s the Meaning of Life
Some movies leave you speechless because they’re extraordinary. Then there are the sort that leave you speechless because you haven’t the faintest bloody idea what just happened. In the Blink of an Eye proudly belongs to the latter category — a film so convinced of its own brilliance it practically pats itself on the back for existing. You can tell this is one of those films right from the first minute. It opens with a mournful piano note, a sweeping shot of something cosmic, and a voice‑over muttering about time, memory, and destiny — which in movie language translates as: “We haven’t got a plot, but hang on, it’ll look expensive.” The Great Time‑Travel Soup The story — and I’m being generous calling it that — tumbles across three timelines. In one, a bunch of astronauts drift through space in a ship that resembles a high‑end Nespresso machine. In another, people on Earth are making grand speeches about connection and consciousness, as if TED Talks had invaded the apocalypse. And...