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Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
Documentary · Science Fiction · Mystery · 2020
Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.
Movie details
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
“The quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe.”
2020 Documentary · Science Fiction · Mystery 1h 39m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
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TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.
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What this film says about your taste.
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The archetype split
Who fights over Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
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The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Directed by
Peter Galison
Sheperd Doeleman
Self
Stephen Hawking
Self
Sasha Haco
Self
Andrew Strominger
Self
Malcolm Perry
Self
Gopal Narayanan
Self
Lindy Blackburn
Self
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Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.