Try, Try story
A woman meets a man stuck in a time-loop who attempts to profess his love for her. His approach borders on stalking when she discovers what happened on these loops. Directed by: Jennifer McGowan. Story by: Alex Rubens.
14 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I repeated a portion of my life over again | choice | It turns out Marc was repeating the same day time and time again, probably for the thousand or so time, and the point of the story was to speculate about what one might do and ought not to do in that situation. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | major | Claudia briefly tried to avoid Marc's attentions in the beginning, then much more so when he became nasty. |
| man vs. woman | major | Marc explained that his behavior was just normal male stuff, and the whole psychopathic-man-pursues-emotional-woman stuff was rather stereotypical. The moral of the story was probably that women ought to punch men in the nose more often. |
| obsessive love | major | Marc explained to Claudia that he loved her and had repeated the same date with her over a thousand times in an effort to get it just right. |
| practice makes perfect | major | Marc quoted this aphorism in relation to his very unique approach to winning over Claudia's love. He moreover illustrated this aphorism by repeating his date with Claudia over 1000 times. |
| romantic courtship | major | The story follows Claudia and Marc as to go on a seemingly impromptu museum date. |
| the ethics of thinking immoral thoughts | major | The story turned on the ethical question of whether Claudia was real enough that it was wrong of Marc to treat her badly. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | We are made to ponder through Marc's actions toward Claudia the extent to which people will commit acts of evil when there are no repercussions. |
| female attraction to bad men | minor | Claudia did not challenge Marc's assertion that she'd been attracted to "assholes" in the past. |
| flirtation | minor | Claudia and Marc were playfully getting to know each other on a seemingly impromptu museum date. |