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The camera is held close in and action cut rapidly between stories, and there is much use of overheard or off-screen dialogue, giving a "documentary" feel to the action.

'He did the audition in his living room in Dublin with his sister holding the video camera,' said the film's director, Joel Schumacher, at the time, 'and doing all of the off-screen dialogue in this thick Dublin accent.

The movie uses desultory off-screen dialogue and strained, charged silences to emphasize the hostility and disconnection between Levey and June, and their scenes are interwoven with grim semiabstract sequences of overhead lights and roaring subway noise.

The off-screen dialogue heard over the opening credits explains the time travel experiment as having the goal of sending a Rhesus monkey to the year 1862 (According to the inscription on the canister containing the monkey, which Swann reads aloud, the experiment begins on November 4, 1982).