‘Unknown Origins’: Cool Concept, Poor Execution
Unknown Origins promises a cool spin on superheroes and serial killers, but ultimately delivers cheap comedy.
Peephole
On a lonely alley Simon, an office worker, finds Miguel a bald man who is standing with his eyes closed and in a catatonic state. This bald man has a small hole in the middle of his head through which Simon can see his own past and also his future. Simon keeps peeking and Miguel his host, gets younger and younger until he disappears, then the peephole is transferred from Miguel’s to Simon’s head. Twenty years have passed and Simon has managed to hide his peephole from everyone, but one day his wife Carla discovers his secret and asks him to let her peek once through the peephole.
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On a lonely alley Simon, an office worker, finds Miguel a bald man who is standing with his eyes closed and in a catatonic state. This bald man has a small hole in the middle of his head through which Simon can see his own past and also his future. Simon keeps peeking and Miguel his host, gets younger and younger until he disappears, then the peephole is transferred from Miguel’s to Simon’s head. Twenty years have passed and Simon has managed to hide his peephole from everyone, but one day his wife Carla discovers his secret and asks him to let her peek once through the peephole.
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