Spark (2024)
7KSpark (2024). 1h 50m
“Aaron is on his way to his birthday party, but has an afternoon pre-party detour, which turns out to be a blind date with Trevor. Along the way, he is given a choice of 3 options: have sex, hug, or talk. After choosing the sex option, he wakes up the morning where this begins. After multiple rounds of the time loop, trying hugging just defers the inevitable, to sex during the party. While Aaron finds snippets of information about Trevor over these time loops, they never have a deep discussion. Only when he fails to have sex with Trevor that the loop seems broken, but he enlists the help of his roommate / best friend / onetime lover to get back into the loop and find Trevor again.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI saw this at a film festival with the writer / director present. Besides the obvious Groundhog Day, his inspiration for the story came from 500 Days of Summer, a story of attraction / rejection. Despite Aaronu0026#39;s various attempts to curry favor with Trevor, the relationship does not seem to develop beyond sex – and the time loop. Aaron has to break out of that particular time loop to finally reach Trevor.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe principals are hot, and have chemistry, but the psychological wall between them is well-maintained. However, the ending jumps out in a rather sudden manner, which I am not keen on.”
