Netflix's New Time Travel Horror Movie Repeats The Biggest Tragedy From Marty McFly's Original Back To The Future Ending

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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Netflix's Time Cut.

A new Netflix time travel movie reminds viewers of the biggest tragedy from Marty McFly's story's original ending in Back to the Future. Towards Back to the Future's conclusive moments, all seemingly ends well for Marty when he not only fixes the foundation of his parents' relationship but also ends up saving Doc. Before the movie's credits start rolling, Marty discovers that his father is successful, accomplished, and admired by his mother. Even his mother seems happy, while his siblings are all still around.

Although the movie introduces a twist when Doc spawns and insists they must travel to the future to save their children, everything seems to favor Marty in Back to the Future's ending. Altering the past could have sent many disastrous ripples into the future, but Marty seems to escape unscathed, with his life being far better than it was before he left for his time-traveling adventure. However, a closer look at a new Netflix horror movie's ending suggests that Marty's ending is more tragic than the movie lets on.

Time Cut Shows Why Marty McFly's Back To The Future Ending Is Actually Sad

Marty Fixed His Timeline But At A Terrible Cost

Like Marty McFly from Back to the Future, Lucy from Netflix's Time Cut returns to her future timeline after making some significant changes to the past. However, as she reveals in the movie's ending moments, she realizes her parents are not the people she grew up with after she goes home in the future timeline. By changing the past, she ends up wiping away her own existence, which fixes many things but also leaves her without the life and relationships she once knew. Therefore, to live a better and purposeful life, she returns to the past, hoping to create a new positive future.

Madison Bailey as Lucy Field in Time Cut

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While walking through a compelling time travel drama, Netflix's Time Cut instills nostalgia in viewers with its intriguing pop culture references.

It is hard not to see how Marty meets a similar fate in Back to the Future's ending. Unlike Lucy from Time Cut, he manages to save himself from getting erased in the future. However, he also ends up in a future where his parents are completely different from the people he once knew. Their marriage was failing, but they were at least the people he grew up with. After he changes the past and returns home, he technically finds himself living with strangers, shaped by a different set of experiences than the ones he had with them while growing up.

Back To The Future's Ending Still Makes More Sense Than Time Cut's

Time Cut's Ending Has A Major Time Travel Paradox

Antonia Gentry as Summer in Time Cut and Christopher Lloyd as Dr Emmett Brown in Back to the Future

Marty's storyline primarily revolves around restoring his timeline and preserving his existence. Lucy's quest in Time Cut, in contrast, forces her to wipe her existence from the future to be able to save her sister from being murdered by a serial killer. Owing to this, even though Marty ends up in a home full of strangers in the future, he at least manages to exist and live without the burden of the sacrifice that Lucy faces in Time Cut's ending.

Movie	Rotten Tomatoes Critics' Score	Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
Back to the Future	93%	95%
Time Cut	23%	34%

Since the whole purpose of Marty's time-traveling journey was to ensure his existence, Back to the Future's ending makes a lot of sense and avoids creating any major paradoxes. The same cannot be said about Lucy's ending in Time Cut. The Netflix sci-fi movie makes it hard not to wonder how Lucy managed to even "exist" in the future when she had already wiped off her existence from the past.

A teenage girl goes back in time to the early 2000s to save her sister from a dangerous killer.
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. In 1955, he meets his parents when they were his age, and must step in to make sure they wind up together before he gets back to 1985.