I just saw Chronesthesia, a New Zealand low budget drama. It is a sunnier verson of the Butterfly Effect. The film held my interest. The story is decent and although slick in many respects, the major twists are guessable 10 minutes before they film seems to want to reveal them.
Besides the story, the films strengths are its acting and the editing. But even here the strengths arn't quite synced. The lead, played by Hayden j Weal, is described inside the film as a jerk and not getting along well with people. But the role is acted likeable, and always seems pleasant and sociable.
A similar contradiction exists in the location of the film. It attempts to be the definitive depiction of Wellington and goes about doing this by showing lots of locations around the city. On a low budget, they use the cities natural light and every day in this film's Wellington is bright and sunny. (The exception is the picture's climax; but even the computer manufactured mother of a storm passes, allowing a montage of sunny again Wellington.)
Anybody can produce good looking footage of Mount Vic. The point of a movie is to dipict what life is like to live there.
