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Machiavelli Hangman, The Next Back To The Future?
By Phillip Kevin
While some films like Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher have recently tried to emulate Robert Zemeckis's 1985 smash hit, none have achieved a fair amount of critical success. While Back to the Future was not Zemeckis's first directorial venture - he had directed Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas the previous year - it was the first box office success that he penned himself.
Everyone can remember Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly as he, along with Dr. Emmett Brown - acted superbly by Christopher Loyd - flew back and forth between the present and the past. This jumping through time-frames technique was reused in the sequels but they lost the freshness of the original that manipulated and put to work the audience's imagination.
Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com), the predicted-to-be sleeper hit of 2006, is said to have the same story structure and patterns as the beloved time-travel films. However, in this case, there is no literal depiction of the time-traveling however, the audience goes through the different dates and although this is a simple use of flashback and flash-forward, there is a very uncanny sense of time-traveling involved.
"I wouldn't say so much that Machiavelli Hangman is like Back to the Future but that it's perhaps a cinematic rendition of Marcel Duchamps's drawings, you could say" explains the writer-director Shervin Youssefian (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1352346/), who is better known for his award-winning short films on the film festival circuits.
About the Author
Phillip Kevin is a senior editor for various online publishing companies. This is his review of the upcoming movie, Machiavelli Hangman. http://www.hangmanmovie.com
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