In the annals of speculative fiction, the very idea of time
travel is one that seems to fascinate people the most. Like, to the point where
even filmmakers and audiences that want nothing to do with the deeper
implications of sci-fi are willing to go along with it; on paper, Groundhog Day
shouldn’t have gotten as widely popular as it did. However, in spite of that,
it is also one of the most problematic and fiddly sub-genres in the entirety of
fiction, let alone speculative fiction. The reason for this is one of basic
logic, and how most storytellers fail to take into account the extremely
complex logic behind time travel, paradoxes, timelines, parallel timelines
among many, many others. As such,
even with the better time twisting tales that have come out recently like
Looper, Edge Of Tomorrow and even (by some accounts) Predestination, plot holes
make themselves quite prominent and end up tearing away at the work’s
structural integrity. Will this film fall into that same trap?
