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Spring
2014 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
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The idea that there would be no more creative works without copyright is pretty obviously false for music (so many people enjoy making music that the only way it could disappear is if we evolve to no longer have ears, and even then it will probably exist in the form of deep bass that you can feel), and most likely false even for things like movies and video games. It may be the case that high budget works become extremely rare, but things like short films would continue to exist, and the existence of things like Spring or various total conversion mods show that even video games would continue. It is definitely false for things like business software, where people will pay for professional services to make their business more efficient.
On the other hand, there are plenty of interesting creative works (e.g. mashups) that are illegal today, and obviously they're being made without monetization. With new tools we even have people making things like Plankton from Spongebob singing Tool songs[0]. There would still be plenty of creativity in the world without copyright.
It's not obvious that we should prioritize the ability to easily fund high budget works over the ability of people to freely share their remixes and mashups, for example.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14yO95OVsLE
Just a note, but the movies from the other guys are a bit different Resolution and the Endless are more lovecraftian (which is why I got into them). Something in the dirt is similar to synchronic but I didn't like it as much, and it's done in a more documentary style. Only one I've still to see is Spring which is a horror/love story.
Needle in a Haystack is also a great timetravel movie IMO, and it is unlike any I've seen before. I really recommend that if you like time travel. It's focused around a romance but it works really well.
I generally feel the same, but was woefully misled by a detailed, thorough, but overall negative review of "Spring[1]", which I found to be a delightful genre-bending tale that really surprised me.
I'm not suggesting it was the best movie of the year, by any stretch, but where the reviewer kept insisting that the alleged plot holes were completely unexplainable, I found that perhaps she just didn't "Get It", because not only were the holes absent from my viewing, but where she found holes, I found explanations that actually made sense (y'know, within the context of a film anyway).
[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3395184/