Aporia (2023)

August 11, 2023 (US) • Science Fiction, Drama • 104m

Overview

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.

Director

Jared Moshé

Writer

Jared Moshé

Top Billed

Judy Greer

Keywords

friendship killing time travel engineering death of husband

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Top Billed 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

Dionne Audain

Supervisor Hagerty

Veda Cienfuegos

Aggie

Mann Alfonso

Mr. Abante

Grace Hinson

Vice Principal Bae

Jeffrey Sun

Prosecutor Macias

Elohim Nycalove

Coel Mahal

Mary-Lou

Crew

Cassie Lavo

Art Direction

Jenna Tresidder

Sound Editor

Jared O'Brien

Foley Artist

Shelly Wen

Sound Mixer

Cortni Wimberley

Set Decoration

Jared Moshé

Writer

Dennis Walker

Executive Producer

H. Scott Salinas

Original Music Composer

Bryan Kopp

Costume Design

Jared Moshé

Director

Doris Pfardrescher

Executive Producer

Christopher Alender

Executive Producer

Neda Armian

Producer

Luke Taylor

Executive Producer

Matthew Helderman

Executive Producer

David A. Smith

Executive Producer

Tyler Gould

Executive Producer

Elizabeth Mihelich

Co-Producer

Sunday Boling

Casting

Peter Van Steemburg

Executive Producer

Marshall Granger

Editor

David Lawson Jr.

Executive Producer

T. Justin Ross

Producer

Meg Morman

Casting

Kati Simon

Production Design

Ariel Vida

Production Design

Nicholas Bupp

Director of Photography

Chelsea DeVincent

Producer

Reviews

Brent Marchant

⭐ 4/10

August 13, 2023

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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Aporia (2023)

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