Aporia is a Hulu low budget sci-fi time manipulation film that muddles its way through low ambition scenario in a dour yet sometimes lovely way. Judy Grier plays a wife and mother who loses her husband only to discover a way to fire a quantum bullet back in time to kill a drunk driver before he shatters her family. The consequences of which seem fine until you peel back the layers.

This is a low consequence “time travel” movie that doesn’t ask the big questions, but the little ones. Maybe your minor tweaks only effect you and a few others, but not the time/space continuum as a whole? Maybe stepping on that butterfly only means one less butterfly in the world? But also… isn’t that important too? Your world is bound in a nutshell and any change blows it apart while the rest of the world goes on blissfully unaware.

The tone of this film is morose and thoughtful and sad. It’s not a good time with time, but a rather intentionally low key story about quiet desperation and loss. It’s focuses inwards and has some lovely moments in between the sadness.

I kind of liked it a lot more than I’m rating it and I kind of hated it more than I’m rating it. Sometimes something quantum mechanics and Schroedinger’s movie… it kind of dragged a little but also kind of left me thoughtful about my own life. It’s pretty good.

Score: 76