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Friday, April 21, 2006 12:00 AM

Tangent

The secret to understanding this little head-scratcher short? Follow the money.

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  • Monday, April 24, 2006 07:30 PM

    RE: Confused about the $5

    Hi, I'm one of the team members that actually made this movie. We were pretty excited when one of our friends found it posted here, it's nice to see that people outside of CMF will actually see it.

    In response to Humbert, the $5 bill is the same throughout the movie. We decided to play with time in the movie - the timeline is actually a circle starting and ending at the same point. We leave it up to the viewer to decide whether everything happened in Jake's mind or if something else happened resulting in a second chance. That's where the name of the movie came from: a circular timeline, but he takes a different path (or tangent) at the end... Plus the team was mostly engineering students so we like math terms haha.

    Anyway we appreciate the comments, especially from those who understand the amount of work that went into making this movie in the allotted week. We had a lot of help and not much sleep! Check out some of the other films at campusmoviefest.com ... there are some good ones.

    -Mike Doran, Northeastern University

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