Happy Accidents (2000)
Directed by Brad Anderson
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary New York City where past and future experiences of trust, commitment and denial are cleverly put to the test. Just as Ruby is beginning to relish her first-ever healthy relationship, Sam begins muttering about being a time traveler from the year 2470.
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Going back to the time warp theory, I can only guess that Anderson was doing this early in his career before he made much more coherent and respected films like “Session 9,” “The Machinist,” “Happy Accidents” and “Transsiberian.”
Anderson began in the mid-1990s in independent romances (Next Stop Wonderland, Happy Accidents) and has settled into a balance of chillers (Session 9, The Machinist) and television series.
It's leprous green, corpse flesh lit by sulphur light, marking the end of a progression that took Anderson from the sunny Happy Accidents to the sepia-inflected Session 9 to the bleak and subterranean--Plutonian, really--The Machinist.
Drenched in washed-out noir shadows by Xavi Giménez ( Intacto , Darkness ) and scored by Roque Baños to within an inch of Bernard Hermann’s grave, The Machinist‘s aesthetic is as sick as Bale’s concentration camp figure, but like his 2001 spooker Session 9 and the previous year’s Happy Accidents, Anderson’s latest similarly trades in karma but allows mood to trump emotion.