We all know how “stuck in a time loop” movies are supposed to go. A character lives out a day that might or might not involve some incredible circumstance, like being splashed with alien innards , crawling into a magic cave , or just getting stabbed to death . It will feature some idiosyncratic signposts (a sound effect, a memorable piece of dialogue, a weird event) so the protagonist will immediately notice something’s weird when those things all happen again on day two, three, and four. As the cycle keeps repeating, something like Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief follows, with disbelief, frustration, experimentation, sometimes despair and dramatic acting out, eventually some sort of cathartic confrontation or life lesson learned, and reconciliation with the normal timeline. That formula, derived from Groundhog Day and now run through just about every imaginable genre , has a lot of flexibility. But it’s still a formula, and time-loop movies rarely break its mold. source https:/...