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The Infinite Man
Why this pick
A compact, low-budget time-loop puzzle with escalating repetitions, sharp interpersonal friction, and a similarly ingenious use of a confined setting.
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MOVIE2016 1h 28m USA
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Why this pick
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Oxygen
Why this pick
For ARQ’s claustrophobic, resourceful side: a protagonist trapped with limited information must reason through a high-pressure sci-fi predicament.
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Why this pick
Though not a time-loop story, its stripped-down dystopian setting, hostile social order, and relentless confined-space tension echo ARQ’s bleak intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Renton wakes up beside his former lover, Hannah. Three men break into his bedroom and, when Renton breaks his neck while escaping, he wakes with a start where he was just a moment earlier. The men break in once again and bind him and Hannah to chairs in another room. Their leader, Father, says he represents a rebel group known as the Bloc and demands Renton surrender money or "scrips" that he had stolen from their rival organization, the Torus Corporation.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robbie Amell
Renton
Jacob Neayem
Brother
Shaun Benson
Sonny
Adam Butcher
Cuz
Rachael Taylor
Hannah