The best moments of life The rather dubious scientific basis of the film (the calcification of the epiphysis does not really depend on the age of the person, and the doctor and the chemist in the film independently say that it depends) suggests that the scenario appeared rather from the connection of the epiphysis with the far from scientific concept of the “third eye”, which allows, among other things, supposedly look into the future. In general, this is very unscientific fiction, in which physics, chemistry and biology were clumsily sewn to time travel.
However, nonsense at the level of science does not mean the delirium of the film as a whole. Ambulance worker Steve learns that he has cancer of the aforementioned epiphysis, and in this dramatic period, he faces the wild prospect of crossing the line of time. In fact, even for someone in the desperate situation that Steve found himself in, it takes a certain amount of courage to believe that stepping over a certain line will take you to another world, rather than perishing like the one whose charred corpse you personally watched a few days ago. It all starts with faith. Only then does the dying person realize that there is something more than his own life – and this is the most important message of the film, which is consistently unfolded in the script right up to the last scene, as if a flower of love is blooming, feeding on the desire to help a friend, warmed by the unforgettable look of a mammoth hunter, sprouted through the rocky soil of his egoism, overcame the thorns of fear and long-dead racists and Ku Klux Klans, bringing order to the minute of history they take for eternity.
"Edge of time" surprises the lack of any smooth perception of other time intervals. How many minutes would you live after a sudden move into the snowy desert or the thick of battle? The past does not look like a place where you can look at the peculiarities of clothing and life of people, not a living safe museum, but almost another planet with its own laws and orders. Steve often says that there is nothing good in the past. And the future for Steve is bizarrely intertwined with the past, and so the present becomes the most important. With his growing addiction and people who are painful to look at. But also with your best friend, with whom you quarrel and put up, but who in the entire space-time world is for you that living thing that is higher than your life. That to which you will devote the best moment of your life is because it will be reflected in the memory of a friend with the eternal warmth of gratitude.
8 out of 10
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