Aporia sees a potent, nervy performance from Judy Greer as a woman who must deal with the consequences of a gripping sci-fi 'what if?' agracru's review:
Build a relationship, a home, a family, a life with the person you love over the years, and you will still occasionally give them The Look, the one that says, “who are you, and how well do I know you?” It’s the look Sophie gives her husband, Mal , partway through Jared Moshe’s, when through the miracle of technology she puts the wrong things right and effectively brings him back from the grave.
Mal starts out the film in the ground, seen only in flashbacks to better days before getting struck by Darby , a drunk driver, and dying. Sophie consequently starts out a wreck, screwing up left and right at work and receiving apathy and scorn from her daughter Riley . Everything is bad, nothing is good, and all Sophie wants is for Mal to be there somehow, telling her she’s the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.
Jabir has built a device one could generously call a “time machine” the way one could call a hellfire missile “demolition equipment.” It can’t send Sophie, but it can send a burst of quantum-mechanical energy straight into Darby’s brain and kill him, before the day he kills Mal, which means Mal never dies and Sophie’s life doesn’t fall apart. Presented with her personal version of the ultimate time travel question – would you kill baby Hitler? – Sophie dithers, then pulls the trigger.
Think of the machine as the monkey’s paw: Wish away, but be careful what you wish for, and also, no matter how careful you are, something significant will break anyway. Greer, in one of her too-infrequent starring roles, plays to Sophie’s anxieties as well as her wants all at once, a tight-wound ball of nerves.
Gathegi and Maadi wear their own strain, too, suffering it in their own ways. You’d feel differently about the machine if you were the first person it retroactively saved from death’s grasp; you’d also feel differently about it if you were the one who invented it, and if you, too, had a dead family you’d give anything to have back. Butis so much Sophie’s story that her concerns take top priority, which could read as a dicey choice.
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