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David (Greg Poppa) is an ingenious programmer and computer developer, but after a car accident that cost his daughter's (Lillian Ruppert) life and made his wife Claire (Sugey Cruz) leave him, he has become somewhat of a recluse, as he can't let go of the memory of his daughter. His company still runs very well due to his partner and best friend, the very materialistic Bill (Eric Francis Melaragni) - who's more than a little surprised when one day David calls him out of the blue and asks for help. Bill agrees, and can't help but finding David's new invention fascinating, a computer interface to the brain that can replay deeply buried memories. He helps David perfect the device, figuring its great marketability, and the two ultimately try it out, to quite fascinating results. Then though Bill finds out David wants to use the device solely to bring memories of his daughter back and isn't even interested in selling - so eventually he persuades David to sell the company over to him in exchange for the device that's technically half his, something ultimately both are happy with. Thing is, the device has after effects, like memories of the past materializing in front of one out of the total blue, something that freaks both men out and forces them to work together on the device some more to reverse the effect. Work on this goes great enough - until David spies into Bill's memories and finds out he has had an affair with Claire, and David's dead daughter might actually be Bill's ...

Truth to be told, especially towards the beginning, this movie's a little heavy on techno-babble, which of course comes with the film's whole premise, but once that's out of the way, the movie becomes a rather fascinating science fiction-tinged character study, a heart-felt drama about grief and coping (or lack thereof), and ultimately a thriller, And a very mood-based imagery helps keep the audience in the right frame of mind, while a relatable cast playing well fleshed out characters keep the viewer invested for one rather fascinating cinematic ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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