The phrase "cycle breaking" usually indicates an end to the repetitive pattern of harmful behaviors - whether it be cycles of abuse, addiction, oppression, trauma or sadness. No matter how destructive the cycle, it is difficult to break through for reasons that transcend systemic forces that hold people captured. After all, there is also a strange sense of closeness that often paralyzes us to want to try something different. Even if it's bad for us, at least we can predict the outcome and prepare for what it brings. In Kevin's Redux Redux and Matthew McManus, a mother named Irina Kelly (Michaela McManus) invested in a machine sold on the black market that Gives gives the opportunity to jump between the parallel universes of our world. Multiversity stories have a huge momentBut Irina does not transport herself for iosubocity or to overcome the interdimensional villain; She is looking for a time frame where her killed daughter is still alive.

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Irina's Daughterian was abducted and killed by a serial killer named Neville (always excellent Ereeremi Holm), who usually works as a frying chef, but sometimes there are other jobs, depending on the multivuzum arrives inside. The revenge of her daughter's perpetrator. By the time we meet Irina, she has killed Neville many times who lost her count. Her cycle of sadness has evolved into a cycle of violence, one who is not sure he will ever be able to break.

The McManus brothers have mainstream credibility, produced and written episodes of "American Vandal" and "Cobra Kai", but their feature filmography is a fascinating series of styles. Their debut feature "Funeral Kings" is shortened, a comedy comedy about the altar boys entering the hijki after working in funerals, while "Block Island Sound" is a guided scientific thriller described by Kalin Corrigan In her review for /film As "fever dreams of film". Now, they are still delivering their strongest film, the one that quickly became one of the most famous conversations about Flix at the Overnight Film Festival.

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Unlike all those multiverse stories that show parallel universes as fantastic different (Like the one where Loki is an alligator), "Redux Redux" never removes his feet from Earth despite his inherent premise of science. Each new universe is almost identical to the one who has visited it before, so much that Irina is able to store flight truck keys, rent emptied hotel rooms, and predict Neville's daily routine. In some universes, he doesn't get the day as usual and Irina is forced to kill him in daylight at a dinner where he works, but these are minor inconveniences compared to the agonizing pain he endures every day as a sad mother.

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The science behind "Redux Redux" has not been complicated and requires a serious suspension of disbelief, but How Behind Irina's trip is not as interesting as Why. For example, Irina's habit of catching an occasional cocktail with Chati Athonatan (Jimim Cummings), a man who also experiences sadness in every universe, but is unaware of whenever Irina meets that this is not the first time to cross the paths. Fury is not a way to cure yourself, but she is ready to continue trying, even if she kills her.

Irina's new cycle is interrupted only when she crosses paths to a universe with a young woman named Mia (Stella Marcus in a fantastic debut), would be Neville's friend who managed to avoid understanding. It is light and sharp-language, providing the necessary light salt from Irina's painful seriousness. Her intrusion into Irina's adventure not only prevents "Redux Redux", well, repetitive, but her presence allows us to see a new side of Irina - the woman who was before Neville destroyed her life.

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There are countless films about sad mothers, but we rarely have to see the oving, maternal side of their personalities before the tragedy turned them into Sarah Connor-Archetypes. It is quite moving to see how fast the "mother's regime" returns to Irina, reflexive mixing conversations with reminders about what MIA has to do to take care of herself. It is also tricky given that we have seen Irina graphically destroyed Neville in countless ways, a reminder that many of our own mothers would cut them, cubes, stab, fired and set fire to them.

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By holding the movie in the Lo-Fi setting, "Redux Redux" feels like a movie that would be right at home with the work of rustic films, especially last year Classmates at the Film Festival, "Things will be different". In an era when the studio inflats already budgets with a fellow, hoping to build a CGI multi -point only for their fights to undermine the box office (inspiring directors to cut their shoulders and act as if there is no way to predict that the film will not be a hit), "Rudux" is never. These are the types of stories in which we need to invest and the type of creative voices we need to nurture.

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At least we can be comforted to know that in another parallel universe, we are.