{"id":40501,"date":"2023-08-01T01:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40501"},"modified":"2023-08-01T01:15:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:15:33","slug":"aporia-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/01\/aporia-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Aporia (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Often times time travel movies can get bogged down in particulars and more complicated ideas but \u201cAporia\u201d is one of the few where there\u2019s not so much of the focus on how, but as to the fallout. Writer-Director Jared Mosh\u00e9 prides himself in making \u201cAporia\u201d a film that\u2019s mainly about the consequences about time travel more than anything. \u201cAporia\u201d is a fascinating and touching mix of films like \u201cPrimer,\u201d and \u201cSliding Doors,\u201d to where this version of time travel doesn\u2019t so much reverse time, but alters the reality with it. \u201cAporia\u201d offers a time travel movie that isn\u2019t so much about altering time but about the ideas of destiny and death.<\/p>\n

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Judy Greer is fantastic as Sophie, a grieving widow who is still mourning the loss of her husband Mal after a horrible drunk driving accident. She wiles her days away working and trying to re-connect with her mourning daughter Riley. When she re-connects with her husband\u2019s best friend Jabir, she learns they\u2019d been working on a time machine. The time machine doesn\u2019t reverse time though, but alters it to where the person that\u2019d previously died lives while someone else dies. Anxious to re-claim her past life, Sophie gets her wish, but there are severe consequences.<\/p>\n

Sophie is longing to find a way around losing her husband Mal and in the celebration of her discovery there are other absolutely unpredictable consequences that follow. There isn\u2019t too much of a big turn of events as Jared Mosh\u00e9 isn\u2019t about delivering big surprise twists. Instead his narrative is a lot more about fallout and consciously ponders on how far we\u2019d go and what we\u2019d be willing to sacrifice to get the ones we lost back in our lives. \u201cAporia\u201d deals so much in ideas about wielding immense power and exploiting the time line to our own benefits, and the moral implications of it. Is it worth altering everyone else\u2019s lives to ensure your own happiness? Is it fair sacrificing other people for the sake of your own personal benefit?<\/p>\n

Jared Mosh\u00e9 always keeps Sophie a reluctant and empathetic character despite the fact that the narrative could have easily depicted her as selfish and narcissistic. While she is very much trying to bring back her beloved husband, she\u2019s really trying to bring back her entire family. Her daughter has all but given up on life and on bonding with Sophie, and Mal was the foundation that broke the entire relationship in to pieces. Sophie just wants to get her daughter back, too, and their mission to fix their past and present, like classic time travel stories, have humongous alterations on the future and their plans for the future. \u201cAporia\u201d is a classic time travel movie but one that\u2019s more about down to Earth concepts and ideas centered on mortality, destiny, and how far we\u2019d go to cheat death.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no big spectacle, save for the wonderful performances by Judy Greer and Edi Gathegi, respectively. Greer is especially at her best here, conveying so many tones of grief, pain, and immediacy. If you\u2019re a fan of thought provoking and evocative science fiction tales, \u201cAporia\u201d hits all the right notes and is begging to be discovered.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This year the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 20th<\/sup> to August 9th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Often times time travel movies can get bogged down in particulars and more complicated ideas but \u201cAporia\u201d is one of the few where there\u2019s not so much of the focus on how, but as to the fallout. Writer-Director Jared Mosh\u00e9 prides himself in making \u201cAporia\u201d a film that\u2019s mainly about the consequences about time travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,12],"tags":[302,906,1013,1098],"class_list":["post-40501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-science-fiction","tag-suspense","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40503,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions\/40503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}