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It turns out that the oldest preacher on the campus has invented a time machine and seen the future; it's only since then that he's seemed crazy. He offers to send our protagonist forward. The rules are, the time traveler and his things can travel forward, but nothing from the future can travel back. Oh, and don't look up your own future (it's never spelled out why). There is a sending unit right there; after a set amount of time, he'll be retrieved.
 
So our protagonist is sent forward to [[Next Sunday ADA.D.]], figuratively speaking -- specifically, 1999. He deals well enough with most of the technology, but the culture throws him -- [[Fridge Brilliance|he's isolated even relative to his own culture, remember!]] Dress codes, the lack of respect for elders, and films and TV throw him. Even the Christians of his era find him a bit kooky...
 
This 2002 film includes what may be the most creative way of showing corruption in film without ''showing'' it: church group enters theater; [[Hard Cut]] to protagonist running out shouting the page quote. You have to have an idea what blaspheming is, but if you do...
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* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: it's a time travel film, but the time travel is the only [[Sci Fi]] element there.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]
* [[Next Sunday ADA.D.]]
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: the decline of civilization is blamed on the [[Hays Code]] in films, because it made films seem okay when they weren't.
* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
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