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Oct 23, 2020 · 61 Photos. Drama Horror Mystery. Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. Directors. Justin Benson. Aaron Moorhead. Writer. Justin Benson. Stars. Anthony Mackie. Jamie Dornan. Katie Aselton. See production info at IMDbPro.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
- 2020-10-23
Apr 20, 2021 · Steve and Dennis work as paramedics in New Orleans, leading them to frequently encounter a variety of medical emergencies. During their routes in Synchronic , the pair come across one grisly ...
Oct 9, 2020 · The Verdict: Bigger budget, bigger movie stars, and bigger aspirations. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead take it all and run with it, never losing sight of exactly what has made them the electric filmmakers they are today. Synchronic is a brilliantly woven film that is both a movie about time travel and about time. Filmmaking is a little bit ...
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Feb 6, 2022 · In Synchronic, the titular drug tears apart numerous lives.As Steve and Dennis go about their routes as paramedics, they come across one grisly death after the next. One person has been stabbed by ...
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- We examine the ending of sci-fi thriller Synchronic, now on Netflix.
- Steve's Tumor
- The Vanishing of Brianna
- Time Travel
- Synchronic's Ending Explained
By Matt Fowler
Updated: Apr 21, 2021 3:06 pm
Posted: Apr 21, 2021 3:01 pm
Warning: Full spoilers for the ending of 2020's Synchronic, starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, follow...
Synchronic is a time travel tale set in New Orleans involving a designer drug (the titular "Synchronic") that blasts a person's gland in their brain. The effect? Said user experiences time in a non-linear fashion. The film was released in October, but recently saw a boost in popularity after landing on Netflix last week. It has since sat at the top of Netflix's trending list for several days.
Synchronic stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan as two paramedic best friends, Steve and Dennis, who come across several aftermaths of these Synchronic trips. The results are gruesome; people skewered with ancient swords, bitten by snakes no longer in the region, or found dead in other mysterious ways. We later discover Synchronic users are being whisked back to the past (the actual year dependent on the physical location they took the drug) and encountering hostile environments that turn out to be quite deadly in their present reality.
During Synchronic's first act, Steve is given some devastating medical news. Sitting atop his pineal gland (the area affected by Synchronic) is a massive brain tumor that can either kill him in six weeks or linger for years. After being told his gland is so enigmatically youthful that mystics might consider it a "third eye," Steve starts radiation therapy.
With his life feeling less meaningful than ever, Steve discovers a new purpose for his existence after Dennis' daughter Brianna goes missing upon taking a Synchronic pill.
After talking to Synchronic's creator, Steve learns that the pills directly zap the pineal gland and make the user travel to a different point in time. That's especially true in cases involving young pineal glands, like 18-year-old Brianna — and, as luck would have it, Steve (thanks to his tumor). Yes, teens are more likely to transport back in time and, therefore, are more at risk of getting stuck.
So, while Dennis goes through all the usual and traditional routes of trying to find Brianna, Steve uses his knowledge to try a different plan of action. Steve begins to take pills from a final batch of Synchronic he bought to try and locate where Brianna is stuck in the past. Dennis, unaware of his friend's tumor or Brianna's possible situation, is none the wiser.
Throughout the film, Steve performs several experiments with Synchronic to best figure out the rules of time travel! He's as prepared as he can be to go looking for Brianna in the past.
Steve discovers he vanishes for seven minutes (seven minutes in the past while also being gone for seven minutes in the present) while filming the experiments. He also learns that where he takes the pill and vanishes, the actual physical spot, affects what year he appears in the past. It never changes. If he takes the drug in the same place every time, he'll go to that same time and date. Taking the pill on his couch took him to swamplands (by an angry conquistador) while doing the drug a few feet away in the same living room transported him back to the ice age.
After experimenting with his dog, Hawking, Steve realizes that trying to bring someone back with him is a gamble. Some of the people who died brought back objects they were directly touching, but Steve loses Hawking to the past even though he was holding his pet's leash. Actual direct contact is required.
There's more. During that same trip, Steve discovered that if he didn't return to the exact spot he was standing in when he initially traveled through time, the window would close. This is when he realizes what happened to Brianna: she must have become stranded in time.
After initially and incorrectly guessing where Brianna took the pill, Steve has once chance left as he's running out of Synchronic. Finally letting Dennis in on everything, the duo relocate to a rock in a park that Brianna was sitting on earlier in the movie. The rock is marked with the phrase "Allways" (spelled like that, yes), which Dennis tells Steve was the last word he said to his daughter. She must have done this in the past in order to send a signal, right?
Turns out the location was right, but it was most likely Steve who carved "Allways" into the stone. We can assume this because when Brianna was found in the past by Steve during a massive Revolutionary War battle, she didn't know the reference. With only two pills left for this adventure, Steve gives the last remaining dose to Brianna, and rushes her back to the rock.
Brianna, on the rock, returns to the present. Steve, who was injured and dealing with a hostile soldier, doesn't.
Similar to the way Steve saw his dog flicker like a ghost before vanishing into the past permanently, Dennis and Brianna see Steve's flickering image. It lasts long enough that Dennis is able to shake Steve's hand, thanking his friend for saving Brianna, before Steve presumedly blinks away for good.
Much like the ending of Inception where we don't see the spinning top's fate, however, we don't see Steve disappear. While it's most likely that Steve sacrificed himself and got locked hundreds of years in the past, we can't be sure. If someone truly wants to believe the rock (and then the handshake) was enough of an anchor to help Steve get back, there's certainly a case for it.
Why was "Allways" spelled with two L's? No particular reason except that, well, that's the way Steve read it in the present. It's a loop, right? He spelled it like that because he'd seen that he already did.
Synchronic Photos. See all photos. Movie Info. When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up...
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Oct 21, 2020 · Synchronic is a complex science fiction film with engaging lead characters. It wraps an intense personal drama around mind-bending metaphysical concepts. A dark color palette and trippy visuals ...
