24 - Suriya, Samantha, Nitya Menon ~ AR Rahman

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Mr.GreyShirt,

As Nasc had pointed out by shifting the adjective 'Brillant' from 'Sci-fi', and placing it before 'Thriller', 24-The Movie does not exploit much the time-travel. It just takes in the simple concept (yet it's complex on it's own right). But the packaging is wonderful - all the 3 Acts have longer thrills (opening, interval, climax), plus, Atreya's tricks are a bonus.

The time concept adapted by Vikram is under the 'casual loop' context. Simply put, it's not the time but it's based on the path. Just like getting tired while walking, the state of body gets blown each time the self enters in and out of the events irrespective to past or future. The time travel concept imagined by Vikram is not a 'closed time-like curve' where the space time bends itself with the time lines to create loops. It is more like a 'grandfather paradox', strictly keeping time as relative between chosen points of intersection, without considering the loop it generates but keeping only the alteration permanent.

Technically the freeze frames (ex: Matrix) or bullet time (ex: Max Payne) or time stopping (Ex: X-Men: Days of Future Past) used by Vikram are based on the Markov Time (property & chain model) : a continuous-time stochastic process which means that future behaviour of the model (both remaining time in current state and next state) depends only on the current state of the model and not on historical behaviour. Such a process is a sequenc of states.

There are other works with immpecable imagination juggling with time, the loops they handle will explode the brains, but Vikram keeps it simple and that's a beauty too.

Kalam En Kathali, is an important song that registers and educates about the climax. It's the first experience of Mani with the Time Stopping. The song begins wonderfully with the frame freeze, suspending the rain drops in mid air. Moreover, the spitting guy seen in the song links to the climax.