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Siskoid
If you had a time machine and the power to change a loved one's life for the better, or indeed save it, would you even if it meant never having known them? Jay Baruchel is a strung-out addict desperate to do just that in Fetching Cody, a low-key time travel picture shot in the run-down parts of Vancouver you never see. There are many things here you hope aren't a fantasy - how people living on the street hold each other tightly, how even two addicts/sex workers can love each other with no strings attached, and how a beat-up old chair can travel through time because it's got Christmas lights all over it. Fetching Cody is sweet in its way, like Christmas (so that justifies so many of the scenes taking place during the holidays SOMEtime), and it's really very sad (like Christmas too, if I'm honest). The movie keeps you guessing by remaining ambiguous about whether history can't be changed or if fate gives events a lot of staying power. Baruchel had never been asked to carry a picture before, but he manages it with the same pottymouthed humor and sympathetic persona that would become his trademarks. 10 months 2 weeks ago