Aporia

"Reality is a continuum."

2023 1h 44m EN

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6.1

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91%

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METACRITIC

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5.6

IMDB

★6.1TMDB · 113🍅91%Rotten Tomatoes●60Metacritic★5.6IMDB · 2,809

Science FictionDrama

Synopsis

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Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.

“Reality is a continuum.”

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Cast

Judy Greer
Sophie
Edi Gathegi
Mal
Payman Maadi
Jabir
Faithe Herman
Riley
Whitney Morgan Cox
Kara
Rachel Paulson
May Cantos
Lisa Linke
Nurse Cohen
Adam O'Byrne
Darby

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jared Moshé
Writers: Jared Moshé
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jared Moshé, shot by Nicholas Bupp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by H. Scott Salinas. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Marshall Granger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Judy Greer and Edi Gathegi and Payman Maadi carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Reality is a continuum.".

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7 / 7

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IMDB entry: tt8511466 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jared Moshé directs. Nicholas Bupp behind the camera. H. Scott Salinas scores. Marshall Granger cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Released 3 years ago.
2Directed by Jared Moshé, shot by Nicholas Bupp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by H. Scott Salinas. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Marshall Granger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Judy Greer and Edi Gathegi and Payman Maadi carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Reality is a continuum.".
7IMDB entry: tt8511466 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Nicholas Bupp
Original score: H. Scott Salinas
Editing: Marshall Granger
Production design: Kati Simon
Costume design: Bryan Kopp
Runtime: 104 min · 1h 44m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Aporia (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 60/100
IMDB rating: 5.6/10 · 2,809 votes
MPAA: R
US box office: $21,587

Awards

2 nominations total

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Brent Marchant2023-08-13
★ 4/10
For those unfamiliar with the term “aporia,” it refers to a state of puzzlement or bewilderment, especially in philosophical and ethical discourse. And, in the case of this latest effort from writer-director Jared Moshé, it’s equally applicable to the essence of this film’s existence. This romantic sci-fi saga of a nurse, Sophie (Judy Greer), who loses her engineer/physicist husband, Mal (Edi Gathegi), to a drunk driver follows the efforts to bring him back to life with the assistance of her late spouse’s best friend, Jabir (Payman Maadi), a fellow scientist with whom he was working on a time machine. Unfortunately, the device doesn’t function as intended, but it is nevertheless capable of sending a deadly subatomic particle through time whose impact is capable of killing someone – in this case, the proposed target being the motorist who killed Mal. The prospect poses a daunting ethical dilemma, but Sophie agrees to it, and she soon finds herself back in the company of her husband. But changing the past carries consequences, many of them unforeseen and difficult to deal with. The film presents an intriguing premise, to be sure, but one not unlike what was previously examined in “The Butterfly Effect” (2004). What’s more, this offering is plagued by a number of issues, such as needlessly slow pacing, insightful but overlong ethical debates and a stunningly unsophisticated temporal device that looks like one of Rube Goldberg’s comical contraptions. The biggest problem by far, though, is one of narrative credibility – not from a scientific standpoint but from a moral one: It’s hard to believe that these three supposedly intelligent individuals can be so casual and cavalier when it comes to their ethics and morals. I find it unfathomable how a supposedly compassionate caregiver like a nurse could so willingly go along with a harebrained plan to willfully kill someone for self-serving purposes; it’s a hallow, contrived and patently unbelievable story arc. And, when efforts to make up for this transgression surface, the plot truly starts to go off the rails. Indeed, the logic behind this tale truly needs to be rethought and reworked, because, as it stands now, it genuinely leaves philosophically minded viewers in a deep state of aporia, especially when it comes to figuring out why they bought a ticket to watch it in the first place.

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