Coherence
(2013/Oscilloscope DVD)
Picture:
C- Sound: C- Extras: A Main Program: C
One
night, a group of 8 friends get together for a dinner party, but when
blackout occurs and a comet flies over them, they start experiencing
a series of impossible realities. That somehow they are stuck in a
series of parallel realities with different copies of themselves. As
they struggle to find out what and who is who they quickly become
paranoid and learn that time and space is no longer a constant.
The
8 'friends' suddenly aware there are doppelgangers of themselves, and
then come to the conclusion somehow only one of them will exist by
the next morning. They then begin come up with theories on how it
happened and what they must do to break free from this reality.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help when they have a junky and also decide
to mix alcohol and drugs to help 'calm' themselves. Things get even
crazier when one of them decides it is just easier to kill off their
copies, but by then no one knows who has replaced whom and who was/is
the original. The final resolution, however, was when one of them
decides to destroy/prevent all the evidence from the group from ever
finding out there are parallel realities.
This
was a low budget film that focused entirely on it's story that
somehow through quantum physics that there is parallel realities that
exist and don't exist at the same time. It becomes hard to keep a
coherent plot when the timeline is no long a constant, something you
do now could either effect past or future. In the end, anything
could happen because there are an infinite amount of realities and
copies of each character who are able to replace anyone of them.
Each different scene any character could have a new
persona/objective/role.
Unfortunately,
the picture and sound here are awful, some of it on purpose... which
is no excuse. Extras are the saving grace of this release including
audio commentary, behind the scenes, original test film footage, and
trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
