How will she resolve to her own reality?īut in expanding the film’s story to include millions upon millions of realities, the task is put to the small set and talent of the actors to show us what happens when worlds collide. When Em realizes, near the film’s second act, that she’s not even in the reality she’s supposed to be, the scale of her problem almost overwhelms her.
Em is our protagonist, she’s who we follow on this weird and warped journey, but she isn’t hiding from her alternate version who is out to get her–in fact in one of the film’s greatest twists Em’s role is reversed.īut this film is terrifying if you consider, as I did, that with the sheer amount of realities that begin to exist, no one knows what’s going on and they become enveloped in that chaos. Cosmic horror uses the scale of the situation, at odds with the intimacy of our characters, in this case, to chill our blood. Thrillers are driven by a quick drive and getting the blood flowing by keeping us guessing what’s going to happen next. I liken Coherence less as a thriller and more a cosmic horror. Using their investigative skills they figure out, with the help of a book left behind by one of the dinner guests brothers, that the comet has created a world where they are cat’s in the box in a cosmic experiment of Schrödinger’s cat wherein their existence is one of many realities that is beginning to interact with the others. It’s a relief that these characters are smart, if not still emotionally flawed. After some standard horror film setup–weird happenings and bumps in the night–the characters use their heads to begin to figure out what is going on. There’s some chatter among the friends about odd circumstances surrounding other comet passings in the early 1900s among them. Coherence is the latter.Ī group of friends gather for a dinner on the same night that a comet is passing over Earth. Either you’re Christopher Nolan or Alfonso Cuaron and can create the vast expansive scope of space in Interstellar or Gravity with high budgets and a large cast and crew, or you can use your narrative to create a film with an idea that can create cosmic dread without leaving a single location.
It’s risky to make a high-concept science fiction film.
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