KILL PILL

QUANTUM THEORY IS A hell of a drug. In the case of Synchronic, the latest from directorial tag-team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, it’s embodied in a little white pill with the power to unlock time itself.

Drop one and the true nature of the universe is visible – and you don’t even have to hug a stranger on a sweat-drenched dance floor. The ultimate in designer pharmaceuticals, it’s proof that Einstein – no slouch when it came to the secrets of reality – was bang on the money when he said “the difference between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Synchronic – the titular drug – shatters that illusion. But at what cost?

“Those ideas are so interesting,” says Benson, who also wrote the screenplay. “Telling science fiction stories essentially using the block state universe idea, that