included · Nonlinear temporal perception

The Wave

Gille Klabin · 87 minutes

A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.

Science Fiction

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Nonlinear temporal perception.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Confirmed 8/10. Repeated jumps and a fixed causal loop drive Frank’s moral reckoning and explain earlier events. Screenwriter Carl Lucas explicitly confirms fixed-loop time travel and distinguishes that intention from a dying hallucination interpretation. Mainline placement is supported.

A hallucinogen disrupts Frank's chronological experience, sending him among moments of his life with consequences in the shared world.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan35.4

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.1/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 49.78 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Justin Long, Tommy Flanagan, Katia Winter, Donald Faison, Sheila Vand

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Releases & formats

5 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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