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I think it’s pretty safe to say that, at some point, we’ve all wished that we could go back in time to change some part of the past—whether it’s a choice we made years ago or the way we handled a situation yesterday. And in Omni Loop a physicist sets out to find the solution.
Omni Loop stars Mary-Louise Parker as Zoya Lowe, a wife and mother who’s struggling with her own mortality. Zoya has a black hole growing inside her, and she’s been given a week to live—but with the help of some mysterious time-traveling pills, she’s been living the last week of her life over and over. After weeks of repeating the same loop, she becomes set on going back in time to fix the mistakes of her younger years. But to do so, she’ll need to revisit her old research and finally solve the question of time travel.
Determined to find a way to go back and accomplish all of the great things that she once dreamed of doing with her life, Zoya enlists the help of a frustrated student (Ayo Edebiri’s Paula) to help with her research. And as they run out of time again each week, she wakes up and returns back to her research in a kind of endless scientific Groundhog Day loop.
But this isn’t just the story of a once promising physicist who’s looping through time in a quest to make a monumental discovery. While Zoya spends much of the film working through weeks and weeks of research, her obsession with time travel all comes down to regret. As she looks back on her life, she questions her choices. She worries that she wasted so many years of her life. And in her race against time, she considers what’s truly important.
Of course, as is generally the case with time-traveling sci-fi films, the story has its share of plot holes and questions that go unanswered—and it has a tendency to shift in tone from quirky to dramatic. If you think too much about the details, you can easily get distracted. But it’s still an intriguing film about figuring out what really matters in life.
Omni Loop is a hazy and often strange sci-fi drama about a woman’s quest to find a way to travel back in time. The storytelling isn’t without its flaws, but the cast takes the topic and turns it into an often moving take on life and science.
You can explore time travel with Zoya when Omni Loop comes to select theaters and on demand on September 20, 2024.
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