My personal recommendation for a Tarkovsky's first is his diploma film The Steamroller and the Violin (1960, 46 min, co-written with Andrei Konchalovsky).
It was surprisingly watchable [for me] and I wish I had watched it first myself before I was exposed to the Mirror when I was 16.
They are not. There are orders of magnitude more rocket scientists than good profiler writers. And no, bottle rockets with flight recorders do not count.
>...retrocausal models also open avenues of exploring a “time-symmetric” view of our universe, in which the laws of physics are the same regardless of whether time runs forward or backward.
... or sideways!
If you want a visual model that may help to build some intuition about that, I have one at [1]. Retrocausality is not explicitly spelled out in that model but "it's uh... uh... it's down there somewhere".