"An eye for an eye means everyone ends up blind." So opens the documentary The Time Is . . . Now, with a tidy example of its problem with logical fallacies: It ignores the fact that most of us have two eyes. Rife with hasty generalizations, tautologies, and false choices, the movie is also tricked out with plenty of visual kitsch, most prominently frame-filling flames reminiscent of The Hunger Games movie poster. Director Vishal Hiraskar wants to "show common people trapped in uncommon situations and how they turn out to be survivors instead of . . . victims." It takes 20 minutes to get to the stories, animated in A Scanner Darkly style. A Kenyan recounts his brother's slaying in a brutal ethnic cleansing and credits God for his strength. Another man improbably sur...
- 9/25/2013
- Village Voice
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