Coherence (film)
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Coherence is an American science fiction thriller film directed by James Ward Byrkit in his directorial debut.
Plot
The film involves eight people at a dinner party. During their dinner, there is a comet that is passing over them. This causes their house and the occupants to intertwine with multiple such houses and occupants from other realities. There is a dark zone in between the realities. When people pass through the dark zone, they leave their reality and enter another reality at random. The one person which the movie constantly follows is Emily (referred as Emily Prime hereafter).
A power outage occurs initially, and this marks the start of the intertwined realities. At a distance, outside, they see a house with lights on. They don’t know it’s the same house from another reality. At first, two of the guys exit the house to go make a phone call from the “other house” and cross over into another reality. Their doubles come in from another reality. No one realizes this switch. As the story unfolds, they begin to realize that the other house is actually another version of theirs. But the group initially assumes that there are only two houses from two realities. Later, they realize that there are multiple realities and that, once the comet passes, each reality will be stuck permanently with whoever stays in it.
As time passes, different groups of people leave the house and cross over the dark zone. This results in everyone getting jumbled across different realities. Due to past events between people in the group, there are various fights that break out. Emily Prime is frustrated and leaves on her own. She wanders from one reality to another. Each of the realities have gotten into fights of their own. In each reality, people have gotten mixed up from different realities, and there is chaos. Finally, she stumbles upon one reality where no one is fighting. In this reality, they have never had a powercut—the event that kick-starts the happenings of the Prime Reality. The group is intact and hence is having a normal evening.
Emily Prime wants to replace the Emily from this reality and take on her life, where she is apparently still the star ballerina at the San Francisco Ballet. Emily Prime sneaks up on her double and drugs her. First, she throws her in the trunk and later attacks her in the bathroom and puts her in the bathtub. Emily Prime then heads to the living room and faints. She wakes up the next morning on the sofa and does not see her double anywhere around. Emily Prime leaves the house and meets Kevin outside. His phone rings, and he looks at his cell phone and states the call is from Emily. Upon answering the call, he gives a suspicious look towards Emily Prime, and she stares back with guilt. The film ends with Emily Prime now permanently stuck in this reality, with the Emily she tried to kill and a Kevin who presumably now knows about her evil actions.
Cast
- Emily Baldoni as Emily
- Maury Sterling as Kevin
- Nicholas Brendon as Mike
- Lorene Scafaria as Lee
- Hugo Armstrong as Hugh
- Elizabeth Gracen as Beth
- Alex Manugian as Amir
- Lauren Maher as Laurie
See also
- Many-minds interpretation
- Many-worlds interpretation
- Multiverse
- "The Garden of Forking Paths", a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
