Einstein's God Model

Whether one believes in the afterlife or not, this sci-fi film will get you to wonder.... Surrender your convictions to enjoy this eerily entertaining movie

No idea how it ended up on my watch list. Gave it a chance. Honestly it's neither a bad film nor a good film.

Thanks to modern digital production techniques, low budget films look almost as good as big budget. You have to really know lighting to get that last 5%. But where it really shows up is in the acting. Not so much that major films have better actors. Rather they have more time budgeted to get multiple takes and coverage angles for different scenes.

Low budget films like this have a lot of obvious flat acting and poorly blocked scenes. Stuff that could have been ironed out with more takes and a slightly relaxed shooting schedule.

I enjoyed the general story. It's got a little quantum terminology nonsense. But not any more than your standard MCU film. Unless you spend a lot of time keeping up with advances in science (as I do) you may not even notice the nonsense aspect.

The actual storytelling isn't too bad. It does the job. What it did not do was hold my attention. I found myself spacing out and checking my email. Probably missed a few key moments, making it harder to follow. That is partially my fault. But a good scifi movie or TV show should be able to hold the attention.

Supposedly this is part of a series of quasi educational films. Not sure if any others got made. But this one did not do a good job of explaining quantum mechanics, DeSitter spaces or particile physics. While they did use terminology from Quantum mechanics, it was all layered in with a bunch of other plot nonsense in such a way that it's hard to tell where the dividing line between fact and fiction lies. I suppose it could be intended to spur interest in the field. (No pun intended, but I'll take it.) My main complaint in this regard is the way that it not only misuses the prevailing theory on the many worlds hypothesis. But uses a really, really bad CGI graphic to represent it. When I say bad I don't mean rendering. I mean in terms of representation.

The preceding model using slices of bread was moving in the right direction. The rendered version was just a badly realized literal size up of the bread model.

They really should have had a physicist consult on this film.

This indie film is just plain fun. Sure, it's amateurish, but...

It mentions some real ideas in physics (past and present) -- GUF theory; quantum theory; string theory; membranes; etc.

It includes some actual history about Thomas Edison.

It names some real physicists -- Einstein (obviously), Tesla, Bohr, etc. (check out the opening credits!)

The props (early electronic devices) look authentic.

One of the writers seems to have a medical background -- some nice details.

Given the film's limited budget, the special effects are pretty good.

The acting is good enough to carry the plot.

I would compare this movie favorably to the first "Flatliners" film (I haven't seen the recent remake).

Watch it and judge for yourself.

It is typical of me, a common lame-brained normal person with an active interest in science and physics but no real mastery of it, to savor these sorts of theoretical science type movies, especially when they experiment with quantum physics.

"Quantum physics" is to me, the common lame-brained normal etc, pure magic. I attempted a while ago to learn just some of the basics and it completely overwhelmed me and erased what ever little bit of it I did understand. It is demonic spooky magic.

This movie thankfully does not go very dense into the quantum, much in the way "Primer" went very dense into the mechanical engineering, and relies heavily on dumbing down the concepts for the audience a bit.

Despite that, while I was able to get ahold of and gain a clear understanding of most, if not all of the concepts dealt with in the film, when they all come together as a whole, I was just left confused.

The film itself made me hesitant to approach, as it was very clearly low budget. I've enjoyed many low budget movies, but typically since the vast majority of movies are done in 24 frames per second, and the vast majority of live television (including news, reality TV, talk shows) are done in 30 fps, making them look just slightly "faster" than movies.

this film seemed to be shot in some uneven mix of 30 fps and something a bit faster, giving it a look somewhere between a talk show and a soap opera. Despite this, the acting was amazingly decent all throughout and the concepts kept my interest long enough to actually enjoy much of the movie. There are some encounters with cliché storytelling, such as the "Off-beat science guy" who is very nearly thrown out by the protagonist due to a lie, placing the entire concept of the film at risk.

Other reviews detail probably in greater detail and understanding what they attempted many times to explain using the term "membranes". The impression I got was something reminiscent of multiple universes, but somehow different, especially later on in the film when they make a startling slight revelation which changes the way they should approach it.

Up to the climax, I had a firm grasp of what was happening. When the business with the protagonist and the professor unfolded, I had a shaky grasp of what was happening. When it got to the "epilogue" portion, I completely lost it.

Although full of sub par acting Einstein's God Model addresses the question of what happens after we die in a way I have never seen before. Its use of complex ideas such as String theory, M-theory and the God Model made this a fascinating watch. This film puts these complex ideas into words everyone can understand and does a great job of keeping you on your toes. It will definitely make you think!