 The recent Dekkoo Films DVD release of the 2019 surreal drama "How to Get From Here to There" shows that a shoestring budget movie that blends a gay-theme, scifi, and an existential crisis can succeed. IMDb states it best in describing this largely silent movie starring filmmaker Kevin James Thornton as follows. "Upon the death of his mother, a gay man in blue collar America returns to his childhood home. There he discovers a cardboard time machine that he made when he was a boy. As he uses it to get glimpses of his future, he ponders the weight of his life's choices." The following YouTube clip of a "There" trailer highlights the art-house creativity of the film. Our main man, only known as Commander, essentially is rattling around in the aforementioned abode in the aftermath of the aforementioned death of his mother. The despair that extends beyond his immediate loss is written all over his face.
This leads to pulling out the aforementioned Calvin and Hobbes caliber time machine to see what the future holds. The voice in the head of Commander is that of the Queen of the Continuum. The obstacles include a shadowy menace that is threatening their power supply. This journey leads to an "its complicated" relationship with Future Boy. The lesson here is that even connecting with someone who may be Mr. Right is tough enough, the emotional baggage that we being to that (or any) relationship makes us wonder how anyone manages to get beyond the honeymoon stage. Calvin and Hobbes expresses this well by stating that finding someone whom you can tolerate is a very rare and that person being able to stomach you is almost impossible. All of this concludes with our Major Tom not being much older but being much wise at the end of "There,"
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