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Volume 14, Numéro 2, Pages 771-784
2025-12-11
Uchronia As Crisis: Trauma And The Collapse Of Futurity In The Time Machine (2002) By Simon Wells
Authors : Benabderrahmane Ghizlane . Frid Daoudi .
Abstract
Time Travel offers a broad space for reimagining time and existence beyond traditional narratives of linear trajectory. Simon Wells’ The Time Machine (2002), a cinematic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novella, presents a dystopian vision of the future marked by temporal collapse and the breakdown of technological utopianism. Rather than enabling transformation, time in the film becomes a site for fatalism, where history loops back on itself and human agency collapses. This paper explores how the film constructs a Uchronian “no time”, challenging dominant teleologies of progress. This study engages with the philosophical insights of Henri Bergson’s durée, Walter Benjamin’s concept of historical time, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence, the paper reveals how the film interrogates the erosion of futurity and the disillusionment with modern humanist ideals. Through an interdisciplinary methodology that draws from speculative theory, trauma studies, and science-fiction cinema, the article analyses the film’s critique of ideological paralysis in late modernity.
Keywords
Uchronia ; Temporal Collapse ; Time Travel ; Fatalism ; Science-Fiction
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