We Can Change The World, Should We Change The Past?
I've been a big fan of science fiction since very early on. One aspect of that is the possibility of time travel. Going back in time and preventing the murders of Jack, Malcolm, Martin, and Bobby, of course. But what of the consequences, would they necessarily be positive?
Time travel as a theme also reminds us that what we do here, now, today, even seemingly “little things”, can have consequences that reverberate forever. Have you ever listened to that voice telling you to postpone a trip, and then find out later there was a horrible accident that you would have been in had you not listened, or had your schedule not been disrupted by some seemingly unrelated irritant?
For another time, the questions raised by Albert Einstein: “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
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When you think about time travel, one film usually climbs up the collective unconsciousness of your memory and it involves a DeLorean. While Back to the Future and its two sequels give more weight to laughs than existential and ethical issues, those films continue to provide a cultural touchpoint in time travel as well as entertain new audiences every day.
Aporia is on the other end of the time-travel spectrum.
While it eschews the heavy math involved with its Sci-fi premise as well, the film is content to linger in the ethical and moral issues involved with tampering with the past. Think Inception without all the dream sequences.
Since losing her husband Mal (Edi Gathegi) in a drunk-driving incident, Sophie (Judy Greer) has struggled to manage crippling grief, a full-time job, and the demands of parenting her devastated teenage daughter (Faithe Herman). When her husband's best friend Jabir (Payman Maadi), a former physicist, reveals that he has been building a time-bending machine that could restore her former life, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice and unforeseeable consequences.
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