Machiavelli Hangman, The Next Back To The Future?

By Author: Phillip Kevin
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While some films like Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher have recently tried to emulate Robert Zemeckis's 1985 smash hit, none have achieved a fair amount of critical success. While Back to the Future was not Zemeckis's first directorial venture - he had directed Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas the previous year - it was the first box office success that he penned himself.

Everyone can remember Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly as he, along with Dr. Emmett Brown - acted superbly by Christopher Loyd - flew back and forth between the present and the past. This jumping through time-frames technique was reused in the sequels but they lost the freshness of the original that manipulated and put to work the audience's imagination.

Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com), the predicted-to-be sleeper hit of 2006, is said to have the same story structure and patterns as the beloved time-travel films. However, in this case, there is no literal depiction of the time-traveling however, the audience goes through the different dates and although this is a simple use of flashback ...
... and flash-forward, there is a very uncanny sense of time-traveling involved.

"I wouldn't say so much that Machiavelli Hangman is like Back to the Future but that it's perhaps a cinematic rendition of Marcel Duchamps's drawings, you could say" explains the writer-director Shervin Youssefian (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1352346/), who is better known for his award-winning short films on the film festival circuits.

About the author:
Phillip Kevin is a senior editor for various online publishing companies. This is his review of the upcoming movie, Machiavelli Hangman. http://www.hangmanmovie.com