What would YOU do if you were stuck in an alternate reality after a freaky comet occurrence!
Let’s review Coherence and see what happens!
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We’ve just been following this woman driving in the car for a minute now. Who she is? I
don’t know. Who she’s talking to? I don’t know. We’re just along for the ride.
That’s the reaction she has? You’ve got to be kidding me? I’d have some obscenities
thrown around for sure. How hard was she pushing the phone to her cheek?
As all of the friends start to gather in the house, everything seems to be going well.
A normal dinner party with normal friends. One of the friends mentions that someone will
be bringing a friend later on, and a few people don’t take that very well, so one of the
friends, Beth, pulls out a little concoction to help.
All great stories start off with homemade drugs. I didn’t know it was that easy to
talk a group of adults into trying something like that either. You just have to look like
you know what you’re talking about and say it’s kind of safe? Sold!
It turns out that it’s all natural, except for a little bit of Ketamine. That’s a horse
tranquilizer! Anything but natural, and probably not the best idea when cooped up with a bunch
of friends with drama.
Em and Kevin pull away from the group to have a private discussion for a minute.
Well there’s our first juicy tidbit of information. These two are obviously doing some shady meetups
here and there, but why keep it a secret?
Now that Amir and Laurie have made it, it’s a party! He just looks like a weasel. No wonder
everyone was talking about taking ketamine when they found out he was bringing another
woman.
Speaking of Amir, he is actually one of the co-writers. He was placed in the film as a
way to help guide the scenes if the actors strayed too far from the vision of the crew.
After the friends all gather at the dinner table, they talk about the effects of comets
and how that might be messing with the cell service. Em tells an interesting story about
a woman in 1923 who thought she killed her husband the day before when a comet passed,
but in the next morning, he’s still alive.
Some grim foreshadowing for our ragtag group of friends? I kind of hope so.
Oh no! More phones are cracking?! It’s the end of the world!
Hugh mentions that he has to get in touch with his brother who is a physicist, but when
everyone looks at their phone, no one has service. There isn’t a landline, and there’s
no internet to reach him. Hugh mentions that his brother told him to get in touch with
him if the comet started causing any weird things.
This group is really hard to watch interact sometimes. Watching them, you wonder how the
hell they all stayed friends for so long, and why do they subject themselves to the
torture of being around each other still!
Right after that, the power goes out, and they pull candles and glow sticks out. How
many adults are sitting in their dining room right now, with a plethora of glow sticks
sitting around?! Unless you’ve got kids that ask for glow sticks every fifteen minutes,
there is absolutely no good reason you would just have glow sticks sitting around. And
they’re blue! Not even the yellow ones for emergencies!
Oh hey! At least we get to see what’s causing all of this!
Hugh and Amir leave to go to the one house that still has electricity about two blocks
away, and the rest of the company discuss comets.
I’m not quite sure why we’re scared of a knock, but here we are, scared of knocking
at the door. They literally just sent their two friends out. It could be them for all
they know!
Mike gets the generator going, and everyone celebrates momentarily while they plan for
what’s next.
Why are we freaking out over the doorbell?! They’re acting like they just found out
a killer was loose in the neighborhood.
Sure enough, this time it is Amir and Hugh coming back from the other house, but Hugh
has a cut on his head while Amir sets down a box. No one can explain what happened, but
when they open the box, no one is prepared for what they see.
Ok. That’s a little unsettling for sure. And it turns out that they are all numbered?!
It turns out that Hugh saw the exact same dining room at the other house, and he ended
up having to use the same door that scared everyone earlier.
Is this an alternate dimension movie? Or some weird time loop?
As they continue panicking, they start getting a little hostile towards each other, but Hugh
decides that he is going to go back over to the house and leave a note for whoever lived
there. Before he could leave, someone notices a big man at the front door, but he leaves
momentarily. Kevin opens the door and notices that the man left a note on the door.
No! No problem at all! No one is freaked out. Except for everyone involved! For a film that
had me rolling my eyes and rubbing my temples, I’m actually involved in the story and twist
that’s developing now.
As the riddles continue to develop, no one can come up with a clear explanation, and
everyone starts to spiral. Once again, they decide to split up and send a group over to
the other house.
Why?! Because that worked out so well the first time! All of this actually could’ve
been avoided if they had just sat at the table with their candles and glow sticks and just
kept drinking. Everyone would’ve been passed out by now, and no one would’ve ever known
about any of this.
I’m officially invested now. I might not be a fan of any of the characters, but I’m
totally invested in the plot!
Beth mentions a book that Hugh’s brother sent, and when Hugh gets the book from the
car, he sees notes about Schrodinger's Cat. It explains that the two separate realities
might actually stay separate and interact with each other.
Exactly! No scientists are there, but even common sense says not to mess with the laws
of physics and dimensions or realities. That’s how you ruin everything!
As a more obvious divide in the group appears, Mike decides to go over to the other house
and blackmail himself by bringing up some past drama between him, Hugh, and Beth. I’m
sure that will be explored further later.
Meanwhile, Lee wakes up from her nap, which we find out wasn’t simply because she was
tired from the night.
She’s just drugged like a horse right now. No biggie.
Em asks if Beth drugged their food, which brings about another accusatory discussion,
but Beth swears that she only gave Lee some because she asked for it specifically.
It would’ve been nice to just think that this whole experience was a drug reaction.
So we’ve totally already had this conversation, and Em sees it. Are they the ‘other’ versions
that are behind? What is going on?!
After we’re done in the kitchen, we see that the Hugh and Amir that are in this house
actually have the red glow sticks, which means that they are originally from the other house!
As they get the book and prepare to head back to their house, Mike walks in who thinks he’s
been gone for 45 minutes. Turns out, it was only about 5 minutes.
I’m with Mike here! Let’s have a drink! Just drink and sit until the comet blows over!
As everyone slowly falls apart at the seams, Em is still trying to figure out exactly how
everything fits together. Around the corner, Laurie is trying to come onto Kevin.
This hardly seems like the time to be trying to start some long lost romance, considering
she was literally ready to take Beth’s head if she had drugged them. Priorities!
When Em approaches Kevin about what just happened, Kevin tries to blow it off.
That’s what I said a second ago! You know...when Laurie was trying to make out with him in
the hallway!
And just like that, the lights go out again. And everyone pulls out their magic neverending
matches, and they light the plethora of candles that are literally scattered all over. Whoever
decorated this house was prepared for an apocalypse!
They hear glass shatter out front, and when they go investigate, they find that one of
the cars has been broken into. When Em sees Kevin again, she asks if everything was ok
with the car that was broken into.
He’s a red one! Wrong Kevin! Run!
Em slowly backs up and runs back to the house, where everyone is trying to figure it all
out. Suddenly, Hugh and Amir arrive again. This time, they act as though they just got
back from the first time they left the house. Once everyone in the house tries to explain
that they’ve already heard this, things get a little confusing.
We’re an hour in, and this version of them is just getting back?! Remind me to stay in
my room the next time a comet flies close to our orbit.
As they try to figure out ways to differentiate the possible others, they come up with the
same plan that started this whole conundrum. They decide to roll dice to give everyone
a number, write it on the back of pictures, and stick it in a box.
Sound familiar?! Does it sound like we’ve already been here, and we’re just playing
into an infinite loop of doubles that will never end because that’s how time works?
I’ve got money on Em being the one that breaks the cycle somehow.
As they roll the dice, pick an object to put in the box, and start to feel better about
everything, no one is wondering if this is a good idea. Everyone feels a sense of relief
once they are done, and they try to move forward from there.
Literally no one is questioning why they’re doing exactly what started this night! It’s
legitimately creating a time loop of infinite possibilities!
As Em starts to compare the numbers they just rolled to the numbers she remembers, she notices
that both of them are different from what just happened. After asking everyone what
number they just rolled, she shows Mike what she has discovered.
Oh damn! The more this movie delves into it’s own rabbit hole of possibilities, the more
I feel like the ending is going to be disappointing. Once you go so far, it’s hard to write yourself
a good solution.
As Em explains everything, Mike accepts that this is just where he’s going to be stuck.
Before Em could convince him that they need to get back before the comet passes, a note
is slipped under the front door. As Hugh reads the note, things start to get out of hand.
Exactly dude! I feel like this is a terrible time to try and deflect the conversation to
a logic problem.
Why did he have to bring that up?! I feel like he was actually about to reason with
Hugh, then he just poked him with the worst insult possible! You don’t just tell your
best friend that a possible five million of yourself have slept with his wife!
As Hugh goes to calm down and discuss things with Beth, Mike has a moment of clarity where
he believes that this version of himself is actually the dark version. He’s done a lot
of things he isn’t proud of, and he believes that this is exactly what he deserves.
Just when Mike thought it couldn’t get any worse, other Mike breaks in and attacks himself.
As things get worse for the group inside, Em decides to try her luck and walks out to
the other house where she finds another her having a breakdown. She continues trying to
find her own version of home, but every single one she finds has it’s own drama with no
hope in sight.
It really makes you wonder if we’re so fragile that the slightest shift in our environment
is enough to send our realities toppling. I’m about to have an existential crisis
with Em at this point.
Finally, she comes to a reality where Em is happily with Kevin, and the rest of her friends
are simply having a peaceful night. Em decides to break Hugh’s windshield, and the others
decide to check their cars.
I can’t blame her for trying to steal the happiness she thinks should be hers. But what’s
she going to do with the body?
Naturally, she stuffs the peaceful Em into the trunk before she goes back in with the
peaceful group. Sure enough, Em convinces her friends to go outside and look at the
comet as it breaks up. During this, another Em somehow finds her way back into the house
and crawls to the bathroom.
Oh my god! When did our Em become so ruthless?! There’s been hardly any violence all movie,
then Em goes completely berserk in the last ten minutes?
As Em rejoins the party, she loses consciousness, and she wakes up the next morning on the couch.
When she goes to check on the Em in the bathroom, she realizes that she isn’t there anymore.
After she investigates more outside, Kevin finds her and gives her the other ring he
found in the bathroom from the other Em.
And with that, it goes to the credits.
Yet another inconclusive movie, but somehow it pulled off having a lot of thought go into
the twist that just seemed to grow more as you watched it. When it started, I kind of
hoped that terrible things would happen to the annoying characters, but by the end, I
was way too invested in the drama and possible outcomes
Also, for a film that only had a budget of 50,000 dollars and was shot over five nights
in a single location, I found that even more enjoyable than most Hollywood thrillers.
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