Case in point is Hugh who desperately tries to contact his brother and Properly Paranoid Mike. For there to be a plot, characters are required not to stay calm and sit out the night in the house but rather venture out to solve the problem. Distress Ball: Also Conflict Ball and Idiot Ball.Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The colored glow sticks help to identify visitors.And trying to leave the place, will just cause characters to reemerge at the same house in an alternate reality. Closed Circle: Contact to the outside world via phone or internet is impossible.Their significance is not revealed until very late in the movie. The "door to nowhere" is introduced early on, but the name doesn't strike as relevant until much later.Beth's ketamine, which Em later uses to sedate her Alternate Self.First, it's made of cloth but later changes to regular. Cellphones Are Useless: The characters are isolated in the house with no phone reception or internet.Of course, Nicholas Brendon was in all but one episode of the seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and admitted in 2010 that he had a recurring problem with alcohol. Casting Gag: Nicholas Brendon plays an actor who claims to have been in all four seasons of Roswell, and his wife indicates in one scene that his career was derailed due to alcohol addiction.When she hits the last one the other characters react exactly as you'd expect. Bread Milk Eggs Squick: Beth mentions that her relaxation concoction contains a bunch of ingredients: echinacea, valerian root, ketamine.Bourgeois Bohemian: Beth is a wealthy woman with New Age beliefs and an appetite for recreational drug use.Bound and Gagged: In one of the alternate realities, Em sees two Mikes gagged and tied down to a chair, presumably after having a fight with another.It's being theorized that each time this happens, the story moves to another/parallel house with different versions of the characters. Black Screen of Death: On several occasions the movie suddenly cuts to black.This might sound convoluted but it’s done in an accessible way with a logical look at modern paranoia and the suggestion of a technological reliant age.Ĭoherence is an intelligent indie sci-fi drama that has smartly chosen its specific focus and plays it out impeccably alongside an intensely clever cast. It’s also interesting that both the audience and their own characters try to fathom if we’re watching the same ‘people’ from beginning to the end. The ensemble is clearly the most significant thing here since they’re the ones you need to be convinced by as you’re pulled into the confusion. This science-fiction drama genre doesn’t rely on visuals and excessive over-explaining but rather wants to gives you the tools to imagine what it’d be like to cross between alternate realities occurring instantaneously. Ward Byrkit’s Coherencetakes a refreshing look into possibility of multiple and metaphysical worlds. While the story progresses, the group try to muster some sense into the situation but everything gets more twisted, relationships start to strain, secrets are untied and it’s all juxtaposed along a nice slice of uncertain realities. But here’s where the craziness starts, because whilst they’re away, they discover the house is exactly the same as the one they’ve just left but there are differences. Upon further investigation, some of the group head outside but can only see one other house ‘lit up’ in their surroundings and so they decide to pay them a visit, to ask if they can use their phone. After the comet passes closer overhead, it knocks the electricity out in the house and also across the whole neighbourhood. Although past relationships and their connections are suggested, this isn’t The Ice Storm(1997) but things certainly will head out of control. On the same night as a mysterious and powerful comet passes over Earth, four sets of couples get together for an evening meal to catch-up. If it sounds like I’m talking in riddles then I apologise and let me explain further. In a similar vein to Mike Cahill’s Another Earth(2011), this is all about one unique event and the potential consequences of the unknown. This low-fi indie drama lends itself to some interesting opinions on existence, life and multiple realities but it’s presented within a tight narrative that keeps it simple for the casual viewer. But then throw in an ordinary evening, a dinner party with your closest friends and some Schrödinger’s cat theories and voilà you’ve got all the ingredients inside the stimulating Coherence, directed by James Ward Byrkit. Imagine, for a moment, being stuck inside an infinite loop of your own reality. Starring: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Lorene Scafaria, Elizabeth Gracen, Hugo Armstrong, Alex Manugian, Lauren Maher
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