The movie opens with a shot of the eponymous oasis, ripped open by a giant CG earthquake, but it doesn’t really begin until the moment Nyles opens his eyes. As played by, he’s the slacker plus-one to younger girlfriend Misty , who’s invited him along to an early-November wedding in Palm Springs. The day starts off well enough — with a quickie that suggests this mismatched couple isn’t altar-bound anytime soon — and steadily improves.
All in all, this seems to be just about the best version of this day Nyles could possibly experience. You might be asking yourself, how is it that Nyles seems to know everything before it happens? And it’s just about at this point that something totally violent and random happens to spoil his bliss and the day resets to find Nyles back in the same bed where he started, reliving another version of the same 24 hours.
The cave is maybe the one detail in this otherwise ingeniously scripted movie that doesn’t work. Presumably, it’s there to explain how Nyles entered the time loop. It also justifies how Sarah and a random guy named Roy found themselves in the same predicament.
It means Nyles and Sarah can be as reckless as they please, with no consequences, and Barbakow delights in orchestrating a series of absurd situations, picking fights, crashing planes and doing shrooms. Such nihilism is more than just a comedic opportunity; it’s a dramatic one as well.
The repetition — typically the most frustrating aspect of this genre — becomes a kind of metaphor for the drudgery of real life here. But “Palm Springs” is to time-loop movies as “Zombieland” was to the undead genre: It’s an irreverent take on a form where earlier iterations were obliged to take themselves seriously.
Horrible movie and I actually like Andy 😂😂
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