*Warning, this story contains minor spoilers for Time Cut*
The new Netflix film Time Cut sees its main character transported backwards in time two decades into an era very unfamiliar to them.
The storyline follows Lucy, who is accidentally sent back to the year 2003 and discovers it is the week her sister she never knew growing up was murdered.
While watching the film, many viewers may be hit with bouts of nostalgia as there are plenty of callbacks to early noughties, fashion, trends and pop culture.
Stars of the film Antonia Gentry and Madison Bailey have already spoken about the throwbacks that feature in the film.
For a clip on Netflix’s social media, they reacted to a retro pink Motorola Razr, which they described as ‘an actual fossil’ and declared it was their ‘mom’s phone’.
It’s not the only fossil of a bygone era that is featured in the new film. Here are the other noughties throwbacks we spotted while watching.
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Speaking of phones, early in the film, Lucy proves that she is from the film by showing off her 2024-era phone to a character who assumes it must cost at least a million dollars.
She admits she doesn’t really call people on it but describes it as her alarm clock, music, TV, her everything.
When she walks down the school corridor for the first time, she gets a look at the phones of the time, not quite a pink razor but one student is talking on an old flip model with an antenna.
Another old-school technology nod included comes later when in Quinn’s garage, they use his computer and they need to get online.
Lucy hits connect and the machine starts to make noises to which she fears she has ‘made it angry’.
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Quinn has to explain to her that what she is hearing is the familiar noise of the dial-up sequence, which was a familiar process before every device in a household was permanently connected online.
Viewers of a certain age will no doubt be unable to hum along with the unique sounds.
Also, when the killer is stalking Emmy through the museum, she doesn’t hear him at first as she is listening to Avril Lavigne on her CD Walkman. Although amazingly to anyone familiar with the device, it doesn’t skip once.
Along with technology, fashion is also used heavily in the film to indicate the trip back in time.
Lucy witnesses a group of girls all wearing Ugg Boots with others all sporting other popular accessories of the time, studded belts.
There’s plenty of denim on show with some of the boys sporting baggy jorts.
Two students also glide past wearing Heelys, which were shoes with wheels in the heel. Heelys as a brand was founded in 2000 and enjoyed a rise in popularity for a number of years.
When her sister gives her a makeover, Lucy ends up sporting a belly top and large hoop earrings.
Music is also used to throwback to the era with tunes including Vanessa Carlton’s hit A Thousand Miles, Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus and All You Wanted by Michelle Branch.
A playlist has already been compiled on Spotify to stream for a full throwback experience.
Time Cut is streaming now on Netflix.
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