The Time Machine (1960 Film) Review
What a time travel movie means to you depends usually on the value you find in exploring the past and future; how we inform the present and what makes us want to be present in it? Or not, in this case? The original Time Machine is a movie obsessed with the idea of moving past ignorance. It also seems focused on what our own ignorance and single minded focus can cost as, as the film's protagonist H. George Wells seems to be so focused on moving beyond a world with war as where his inventions will go that he is willing to invent a machine that can literally take him beyond it, beyond all of it. And that this machine will take him to where he hopes to be; a place beyond humanity's ignorance. The story however consistently at its best, when it's not reliant on some old timey colonizing ideas of superior intellect and the guiding hand of knowledge, when it is showing us the cost of what that single barrelled approach strips us of; a person loses the people...