‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’: Time Loops For Tiny Teens [Review]

What would you do if your forever was a single day? In most films about time-loops, we watch characters struggle to escape repetition and eventually find a hole in the plot allowing them to slip back into their regular lives. In “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” directed by Ian Samuels, this idea pivots by changing the motivations of the two teens stuck in the loop. They grapple with the fear of not knowing whether they’re the ones awake as everyone around them sleepwalks through life, or if they’re the ones who’ve been dreaming while the world around them moves along. Cleverly written with heartfelt characters, this might not be a total restructure of a familiar story but it’s fresh enough with just enough of a spark to allow us to become distracted, if not enchanted, by the film’s youthful ‘you can do anything’ attitude it sets forth.

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