you can read Free Time as a timely & powerful anticapitalist message, but it plays like a less political, pleasant, 70s-tinged comedic homage, and both readings make perfect sense - until that last shot. both times i have seen this now, the long pull away & Colin’s performance read to me as a sudden genre shift to pure horror: the terrifying truth that “authentic” artists, blue collar materials workers, and “safe”, resigned-to-life corporate peons alike, all of us, short of violent revolution…