Chuck Klosterman On Film And Television (22 page)

4
. This is too difficult to explain in a footnote, but one of Carruth’s strengths as a fake science writer is how he deals with the
geography
of time travel, an issue most writers never even consider. Here, in short, is the problem: If you could instantly travel one hour back in time, you would (theoretically) rematerialize in the exact same place from which you left. That’s how the machine works in the original
Time Machine
. However, the world would have rotated 15 degrees during that missing hour, so you would actually rematerialize in a totally different spot on the globe.
Primer
manages to work around this problem, although I honestly don’t understand the solution as much as I see the dilemma.

5
. I realize
Planet of the Apes
isn’t technically about time travel. Time moves at its normal rate while the humans are in suspended animation. But for the purposes of the fictional people involved, there is no difference: They leave from and return to the same geographic country. The only difference is the calendar.

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