Few films understand what makes time travel so addictive as well as Back to the Future does. An ordinary teenager, a mad inventor, a car with gullwing doors and exactly 1.21 gigawatts. Forty years old, and still the one to beat.
Marty McFly is your average teenager, with a skateboard, a band and parents he would rather not introduce to his friends. Until his eccentric friend Doc turns a DeLorean into a time machine, and Marty is accidentally flung thirty years into the past, to 1955.
There he runs straight into his own parents, teenagers his own age. Worse still: his future mother falls for him instead of for the shy boy who is supposed to become his father. Marty now has just one mission, to get the two of them together after all, before he slowly watches himself fade out of the family photo. And after that he still has to find his way back to 1985. All he has to work with is a bolt of lightning, a clock tower and exactly the right amount of speed.
What makes Back to the Future so timeless is that its clever plot never comes at the cost of feeling. Beneath all the gadgets, chases and jokes sits a surprisingly lovely idea: what if you met your parents when they were the same age as you? And what if you found out they were every bit as insecure, awkward and hopelessly in love as you are?
Back to the Future is lightning-fast, funny and put together with ridiculous cleverness. Everything planted along the way pays off at just the right moment, from a throwaway joke to the very last prop. So climb in, put your foot down and make sure you are on time.
Please note: this film is part of our Film in the Pluktent programme.
The film starts at 7:30 PM. Tickets: €6.
