Ultimus/Evaluation

I remember having this crazy idea to make a movie out of a little over a year ago. This idea was totally conceptual, and one of the most reminiscent things about it was how revolutionary I had envisioned it to be. It wasn't supposed to be a clone of Cloud Atlas, or even Looper from the start. This idea was almost completely original when I first came up with it; a way to have one individual relive their mistakes, and continue to elude from them was the concept, and this had always fascinated me. Then I began to write about the character a bit more, slowly adding detail that was (is) subtle in the film, but was needed to further motivate the production is this picture. I thought of a concept where this character had lived for hundreds of years, and how gaps in time demonstrate how the smallest interruptions (the characters' actions) in space time can cause a reaction that was written to be apparent, but not obvious, in the film's original script. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how I was going to convey this sort of idea; that's when I came up with the process of having 'lapses' between each of his different lives in different time periods, with the original script having all of their actions closely knit and apparent for various, and yet one simple reason. It was the idea of how 'one' can either live with regret for the rest of his/her life, or run from it and leave the likes of faults in the past where it belongs. Besides the small cuts I had to make specifically for the animation, I believe it has lived up to the script's expectations, even if the majority of the audience won't understand the film. The script was written with it originally being a challenge to the viewer; it was written as a test, an enigma for people to try and understand, to ultimately argue the meaning (or probably just the point, in effortless conversation) of Recall¹.

The final cut of the film has color corrected scenery, fixed animations/effects, and a soundtrack.