(Note: This post contains moderate spoilers for “A Wrinkle in Time.”)
Both the novel “A Wrinkle in Time” and the Disney movie based on it are all about traveling vast distances to explore the universe. There aren’t any sleek, futuristic spaceships or rockets in the movie to cross the span between planets, though. Instead, characters rely on a weird, real world theoretical physics-influenced concept with a very familiar name.
The story kicks off with protagonist Meg (Storm Reed) struggling with the disappearance of her NASA scientist father (Chris Pine), who just up and vanished one day. Things change when Meg, her brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), and her friend Calvin (Levi Miller), are visited by three interdimensional beings who show up to enlist the kids’ help.