A very original idea that kept me thinking throughout the movie. The movie reminded me of Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of The Lobster and Dogtooth, very dystopian. A very well made low budget sci-fi that managed to hit far above it's weight. A big thumbs up.
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kosmasp16 September 2015This movie is pretty savvy to say the least. It's also one of those cases where it merits more than one viewing to fully understand and appreciate what is going on. While the front is a romantic comedy with a Science Fiction touch, the Sci-Fi part is actually a lot bigger than you may think at first. Or maybe you thought about it or read about it already, but whatever the case, experiencing this movie, is a blast to say the least.
We have more time-lines and more jumps than some people will be able to handle or even want to handle. There's a point where things can seem to be too much. And after a couple of twists you may find yourself going "come on". But if you are like me and those other people who loved this, you'll actually be craving for more ... which is something the director is hinting at towards the end ... visually but also in his commentary! -
hond-9206421 June 2015If it is true that the position of sub atomic particles can be accurately predicted (and it seems to be), and if it is true that we are made of atoms (and we are) then is stands to reason that we can be predicted as well. And if that is true, then all history - into the future - is waiting for us already. This is one part of the movie. But before that, there is another great science fiction story. And true to the good science fiction that it is, it takes a real observable "fact" of our lives (in this case that some people seem to be luckier in most aspects of life than others, being at the right place at the right time etc) and builds it out into a logical conclusion, a little bit beyond "the ordinary" that life usually gives us. And it is well told. The movie starts off a bit slow, but it is used to settle the premise of the story in one's mind, so bear with it. It soon tuns into an intelligent movie that leaves one well satisfied. If you like science fiction (not the bang whiz special effects sort, but the sort rooted in ideas and good story telling)watch this one.
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skish-873-9647001 June 2014This truly could have been an amazing film deserving of much more than a tepid-warm 7/10.
At first you get the feeling that you're going to watch a love story unravel... but this slowly shifts between romance, science fiction and thriller at points. I barely noticed the transition myself... much in the way that District 9 morphs from a documentary into a science fiction tale seamlessly. They balanced each with precision so you don't know quite what you're watching at any given moment.
This film tries to convey many different concepts and fringe concepts ranging from physics to philosophy... but does not appropriate them convincingly or with clarity. I fully understood what it was trying to do and say... but it had tried to make the web of intrigue too intricate. It had many holes and unexplained loose ends which towards the middle made it unbelievable and pretentious. You know what they say - the more complex something is... the more chance there is of something going wrong. That applies with anything from technology to relationships (or storytelling in this case).
The merit of this film mainly lies in it's simpler plot points, the acting and direction.
If you're one of those people who doesn't believe that even fiction has to be believable (to some extent) to be enjoyable or you simply just don't understand what the concept of OXV is... then this is your film. -
kenmay13931 May 2014Frequencies (aka OXV: The Manual) has a great cast, great cinematography, and much more but if a filmmaker is confused about what the title of his film is, maybe there are other important aspects of the film he hasn't figured out, like a plot, characters, meaning, etc. Real life is very confusing sometimes but a successful film, no matter what its goals, is more than just scenes strung together just as music is more than just a bunch of sequential notes. Just because you can't figure out what happened doesn't mean you've read a clever story. The emperor does indeed have no clothes and if Frequencies (aka OXV: The Manual) does have any meaning it's a lot more hidden than it ought to be in order for most ordinary people of average frequency to find it. Maybe Frequencies (aka OXV: The Manual) is what happens when you make it up as you go along and when the time to end it comes, well, you just stop. If Frequencies (aka OXV: The Manual) actually had a coherent story or something meaningful to say it could have been a great film, but it simply doesn't. It just pretends to.
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A_Different_Drummer26 June 2015Some movies require you to take the "reviewers rule book" and toss it.
This is one of them.
The writer/director Darren Paul Fisher appears to be one of those rare auteurs who releases a work every four or five years and then disappears or hibernates or goes back to his home planet.
This is an extraordinary film. Even now I not sure if this is a love story sugar-coated with one of the most complex metaphysical scripts of all time, or a metaphysical script grounded in a wonderfully odd love story.
However, as one of the main characters quips in the very last scene, "Does it even matter?"
The film is mesmerizing and engaging and challenging. It makes the MATRIX look like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The scenes in the present with the adult cast are perfect and flawless, but the flashbacks with the child actors are beyond even that, they are hypnotic.
A great film by a gifted auteur. Memorable. Enjoyable. Astonishing.
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zep421 May 2020What would you do, if you were destined to fail, but then had the opportunity to level the playing field of your heart's desire?
I luv'd it. It's a gem. -
pjr23525 May 2014I was skeptical about the ratings on IMDb but I decided to see this because I was looking for something different. I love the way it was told in parts, and how they all fit together. The movie was very smart and the actors and actresses all did an amazing job.
It kind of reminds me of the SciFi show Eureka, but with a more darker twist; I liked it. They did a good job with the music and the way they used the sound effects. Very clever camera work when viewing the situation from a certain persons perspective, bland colors vs. good saturation.
The movie had a slow build but the wait and the wonder was completely worth it in the end and it kept me thoroughly intrigued throughout. Great flick, I recommend it.. just bring your thinking caps, this one is for talking about. -
A British romantic sci-fi drama; A story about a discovery by scientists about vibrations that can be used to predetermine every aspect of human life; a man and a woman are incompatible but he is determined to prove science wrong. This film is a good example of the primacy of story in filmmaking. In spite of the uninspiring dialogue, unremarkable soundtrack, stilted acting, and its low budget and adequate production values, it comes out as a creditable film. The strength of its intriguing ideas and narrative structure is a credit to sci-fi and it doesn't suffer for the absence of visual and special effects and stunts that many producers resort to in this genre. Eleanor Wyld and Daniel Fraser as the adult lovers remain convincing and charming despite the script. The theme about the machinations of fate makes for interesting viewing but it drags its feet over a rocky conspiracy theory subplot.
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If "slick" was all you needed to give a movie a high rating, FREQUENCIES would be right up there with the characters in the film who have the highest frequency numbers, because it is that -- as slick as KY Jelly. It has a clean, beautifully photographed look, attractive actors and an engaging love story that is initially quite involving, drawing us into the story very early on -- seems like an interesting, even quirky story unfolding....initially.
It opens with the easily understood and familiar premise, a kind of caste system which seems intrinsically unfair and which thwarts a lover from reaching his beloved. In this version of unfair, unrequited love, there is a caste system based on of all things, some sort of frequency in their atomic structure of each individual makeup which is unalterable and which permanently relegates each to a specific level of "luck" or fate and lot in life, much like our present day SAT scores. And they are bound to it to the grave. What becomes immediately of emotional interest to the viewer is that this indelible frequency number (which right off the bat begs credulity of the highest order) not only marks their level of fate, but also predetermines who they can love (or not). Not an original cinematic concept by any means and we have seen it used as the foundation for love-stories in a myriad of other films, except here it becomes just too silly a device to be believable; their atomic frequency prevent them from even going near each other let alone touching or loving each other. The "science" behind this situation is just never explained so it remains glaringly bad science to the point that at times it's laughable.
OK, let's live with that hard-to-swallow "frequency out of sync" device...it's only a means to move the meat of the love story and the conflict therein forward. But that's only the beginning of the nonsense as the director/write then begins injecting more and more absurd arguments about irrelevant concepts like fate and predetermination and free will and irony(?!), all supposedly controlled by a "Manual" that we are told, without any plausible explanation, pops up throughout the centuries -- a kind of DaVinchi Code, only it's about patterns and fate. It's represented by three hieroglyphic looking symbols that appear here and there, again without explanation, and also you see them crudely paint on the backs of their cellphones. Oh, and yes, the discovery of how to control the "side effects" of frequency mismatch is made by the lead male lover who happens to be a mathematical, druggie/genius (even though he's vibrating at the LOWEST frequency, i.e. bottoming out on the SATs) -- HE figures out that WORDS -- yes, just speaking words out loud, stops the bad side effects when two people of divergent frequencies dare to try to interact. But wait...what about those musical notes. Ooops, more on that later.
Come to find out, if you take certain drugs -- lots of them...like mixing whole prescription bottles of them together, you can then speak certain words that a cellphone app will spit out which will quash the bad side-effects when individuals with incorrectly matched frequencies play hanky-panky with each other. Yah, that's right....it's the WORDS you speak that stop forks and knives from flying about when the lovers touch, but low and behold, another unbelievable discovery....it's MUSIC that will squash the flying utensils and vibrating doors and steam rising from the ground as well as cell app words. Will wonders never cease? In this movie, evidently not soon enough.
The "science" here is absurd; the philosophical conundrums of free will vs. predetermination vs. patterns vs. irony (irony?...really?!) are all over the map; THEN the mean military arm of the government jumps in just to make things interesting (and less coherent) because now humanity as we know it is threatened if the control words are spoken out loud. All the scientists now have to do is figure out how to restore frequencies so that the evil caste system is back in place and we are all really just machines anyway...or are we? Yah...it is just as idiotic as it sounds. Not a shred of any plausible science or philosophy or physics while all the incessant mumbo-jumbo discussions that the characters spout on these "deep" (read pretentious) topics sound as infantile as those commercials for Cheese-Its where the 5 year old kids give their explanations of how the cheese gets into the crackers. None of this means a hill of beans to whatever is emotionally engaging of the plot -- the love story and the social ethics of a society with such an unfair way of predetermining citizens' lot or why any of this is happening. Instead the sci-fi simply consists of dialog that sounds like the screenwriters hadn't the foggiest handle on ANY of these topics. Nor do we care an iota about any of it as presented.
While as a whole, this may have started off as a good attempt at a story that we COULD HAVE gotten emotional invested in, but one-third the way thru it they seem to have seriously lost their way and had no idea where they wanted to take the film. And that is sad because the film had great potential, but when you need to come in to save your splintered, unraveling, unresolved last reel with all this mess still flopping in the wind and you to have to bring in MOZART to tie up lose ends as well as turning one of your very minor supporting characters into an omniscient Star Trek-like "Q" as the denouement to the meandering, indecipherable last 20 minutes, well, you just wind up with a major disappointment. -
Although from the synopsis I thought this was not the kind of film I can enjoy, I decided to watch it after reading the (at the moment only) review, by Christian. I must say, he was right. This film is great! It had my complete attention from beginning to end. It is funny, original, mysterious, intelligent, intriguing, sweet, sad, mental, philosophical, emotional, from time to time thrilling. There are names of fictional characters which recall names of famous geniuses, and sort of gags/tributes to them, which to be fully enjoyed require you to at least know, for example, who Isac Newton was and how important for him things like weight/gravity and apples were. And probably if you are a somehow philosophical/mental type you may enjoy some aspects of this film differently. But I am sure that whatever kind of person you are, this film will give you much. And you will not forget it.
If the apparently complicated conversations about philosophical themes sometime confuse you, do not try to follow them. They are there to make you smile, so smile of their complexity, and enjoy the whole of the film, the romance, the comedy, the drama, the mystery. This film is really different. Oh. It was a long time that I was not so deeply and lightly and fully and gently pleased by a movie. The actors are also very good.
Somehow this film reminds me of "Waking Life" and of "I Love Huckabees", for its mixture of mentality and emotionality and comedy.
I do not give it a 10 just because nobody is perfect :D And like Christian wrote: please watch it! Please for you, not for me. Because you will like it. So do not miss this opportunity! -
brookesthirtyone29 April 2020I really don't know why this movie has been so highly rated. Yes it's a great idea, very intelligent and makes you think but it's badly acted and the cinematography is down there with Grange hill. They obviously didn't have the budget and it's way too long....i couldn't wait for it to end but the writer is someone to look out for. If this was made by Christopher Nolan it would keep you on the edge of your seat, it would be mind-blowing and the biggest box office hit of the year but this is like sitting in a science class that you don't want to be in.
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I saw the world premiere at Fantasia and chatted at length with writer/director/editor/producer Darren Paul Fisher afterwards.
The Universe he created and that the viewer slowly discovers is complex, coherent, intriguing and raise ethical and philosophical questions including the classic determinism versus free will dilemma. The arguments and points of view are quite interesting, with a caveat that in the end, perhaps who cares?
There is a love story in the midst (and a friendship) that builds and begs to reach you emotionally with fine acting and directing. Character development arise seamlessly through three different age period and the pacing and editing are quite remarkably on cue.
I don't want to reveal too much about this cerebral science fiction, but there are many clever surprises that awaits the engaged viewer both in the story twists and the underlying concepts explored. Even love has some deep philosophical implications at one point in the context of the film.
So there you have it: the best film of Fantasia so far this year and one of the best sci-fi ever, from the spectacular script to the screen.
Bravo Mr Fisher and thank you for sharing your thoughts and labour of love in this artistic and philosophical masterpiece. -
neodebisu13 June 2014This is the best movie I've seen in years. Everything is brilliantly conceived and executed -- from the script, to the cinematography, to the casting, to the acting.
It's one part science fiction; one part existential philosophy; and two parts, the mad connect-the-dot ramblings of a drug-induced psychotic break.
Director Darren Paul Fisher pulled off the combination -- which I refer to as Sci-Phil -- as brilliantly as my favorite director, Darren Aronofsky.
Hmm... they're both named Darren. I think I see a pattern beginning to emerge. -
Recommended to me as interesting, intelligent movie. I watched it twice. At first, I wasn't impressed, but it looked OK. As I fell asleep for 10-15 minutes somewhere in the middle, I decided to give it another try. Especially after reading praising reviews here which made me think I probably lost track with the story during these missing 10-15 minutes, or something crucial to understand the concept. Unfortunately, after a second chance, it was even bigger disappointment. Movie starts promising, in pretty ordinary, casual setting. A young girl and a boy got introduced after some unknown important test where both scored extreme yet opposite results. Then, strong reactions happen upon their contacts, followed by weird events, so they cannot stay close to each other more than 1 minute. Fairly interesting indeed. Also, camera work is really good and quite artistic. Unfortunately, that's all about it. Slowly, movie takes confused and dull rather than interesting route.
Frequencies suffers from style-over-substance and trying-so-hard syndromes. There is just too much of everything. When it tries as romance movie, it fails because of general mechanic flow and "scientific" coldness. "The higher the frequency, the lower the empathy" - as main female character was described could explain that, but however, it's no excuse. Flat, emotionless movies are not good no matter the genre and lack of any sentimentality in drama and especially romance is just a failure.
Then, it tries at social commentary, with very poor results. Standard concepts of social control and mental manipulation, perhaps the social effect of modern technologies are perpetuated... but in so superficial and obnoxious manner. Basically, a social commentary just for the sake of it. Also, since government agents or whatever got introduced in the story, the movie really drags in unneeded nonsense and becomes difficult to follow.
Self-help and (anti) psychiatry themes are covered. For instance, the negative frequency of main guy "not in sync with nature" and main girl's way too high one which prevents her to "feel" can also imply mental disabilities like autism. The problem however is lack of transparency in these subjects, as it never goes beyond simple implications. Seems that atmosphere was clearly set at inoffensive and "positive", to prevent cool and "smart" tone of the movie. Possible mental disabilities got masked, characters typically presented as "genius". Minor scenes which imply autism by displaying repetitive behavior still stay neutral, in a way of some "cool" screen shots. A scene where the couple was prescribed with "dose of Mozart and Brahms" is just so damn namby-pamby and downright stupid. Even most characters were named by gifted scientists or composers (Newton, Tesla, Strauss etc.) for totally unclear and bizarre reason. Red flag for pretentiousness risen!
Oh, and that notorious aspect, the flirt with (cough!) existential philosophy. Without doubt, this is where Frequencies is at the most pretentious and where it failed to lowest. Philosophical phrases are extensively used throughout entire movie, in most laconic way imaginable. Such desperate desire to appear so intellectual is just annoying. So, philosophical catch-phrases are constantly thrown everywhere, but in fact, the initial idea of the whole movie hardly have some(if any)depth. The premise goes literally like this: there are people who emotionally cannot get together(because of their extremely opposite "frequencies"), they are not "destined" to be (add there many boring contemplations about fate, shown in the movie), some words can change that (certain tones may change "frequencies"), but these words can be also used as a tool to manipulate and control others, while certain music (like Mozart, doh!)is antidote (it brings all humans at the the same "frequency") and can unify whole mankind on subconscious level (add there that inane social commentary part) It's perhaps interesting, but no need for some extra intelligence to realize how naïve and flawed this "theory" is. However, this "theory" is not the issue, but lack of content around that idea in the movie.
At this point, Frequencies enters New-Ageisms (Scientology?) and perhaps cyber occultism? Like a magic formulas, some meaningless words are used to manipulate people and get them instantly act. There are digital devices who generate these "magic" words. Meh, come on! The way these ideas got executed in the plot is absolutely lazy, random and stupid. Good science fiction IS based on science, but this is just childish "futuristic" fiction. There is even some device with video transmission of future events, another idea thrown in the plot for no actual reason? Oh, my
On top of all, the most horrid side are tendencies at artistic and even avant-garde. There's numerous flaws in plot, atmosphere and even acting, yet whole package fools out with faux "unconventionality". Frequencies pretends to be intelligent, but ends as mumbo jumbo. It tries as artistic movie, but ends as arty-farty one. It's often suggested as atmospheric, "visual" movie. Well, camera is classy, but it's still far from good atmospheric movie. Lynch's Eraserhead or Tarkovsky's Stalker are examples of atmospheric masterpieces - where actual story was secondary, moving at very slow pace, while visual side was primary. That sometimes seems to be the case with Frequencies. It's visually strong but only in technical terms, because unlike these two movies it cannot express anything emotional or captivating. While it's story is not that buried, it also moves in much faster pace. But, clocking at 100 minutes, Frequencies looks long-winded, like there is about 30 minutes more than needed.
So finally, the movie just died under all that mess. Near the end, I simply started to ask - what's the damn point of all this? Seems that directors were also aware that it got lost along the way. Even the closing scene with two main characters clearly ends in that fashion. Frequencies is nothing but superficial effort to be extraordinary, original, smart, artistic. Result is pretentious and faceless movie. It's blueprint of all wrong in modern art - made out of boredom, with desire to impress but nothing to express. -
M1racl3sHapp3n14 August 2020At the beginning of the film, I wasn't really impressed, I thought it was just going to be another of those kids movies. Then, after the first 10 minutes, the sci-fi components start to gradually make sense, until you really can't get enough of the leading characters and you start falling in love with them, their friends and others supporting characters. I was still smiling when the movie ended. Whether you believe in faith or fate, this movie is a must watch for die hard sci-fi lovers with no CGI or VFX: just a well acted original story!
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Watched purely on the strength of the other 3 reviews. Maybe they were fan boys but this was like watching a low budget British TV movie that had been commissioned by BBC Three to a fresh out of film school director with a decent idea. Ignore the comparisons with Eternal Sunshine, Primer and Waking Life, it's a very, very long way from any of them.
Some nice ideas but ultimately a muddled storyline, especially toward the end. Acting was decent for a low budget British movie but I don't think anyone will look back in years to come and think that this was to the director what Pi was to Aronofsky or Following was to Nolan. -
S_Unit71327 May 2014Long time since I've seen such movie which makes you think, and adore the imagination put in this film. A genuine art cinema which has an enormous potential to carry on his shoulders and make an example for modern generation filmmakers.
I normally go for the movies which has higher user/critic ratings or if I have good recommendation for it, but this movie was exception to that. Surprisingly this movie rises up your expectation from the start and keep on raising that bar right till the end.
Storyline moves through different twist, angles making you to focus on it and get very much involved in it. It doesn't bore you with details rather it wants you to keep your focus on the character which I think makes this movie even more fun to watch.
Darren, Writer/director gives an refreshing, new way of looking at what we call the chemistry between two people.
All and all, go for this movie and expect a smart, refreshing , brilliantly executed cinema based on intelligent script. -
gfultz126 May 2015First off wow! this movie from the first scene i was just mesmerized by it i couldn't look away i was just completely engaged in each scene. it was weird because you just keep watching but then it slowly unfolds into more than you thought it was. it seemed to play on different levels of society. but also bring real life truth into the show but in a settle and clever manner and towards the end you start to see it and it's amazing and the finish is just pure genius.
I cannot remember the last time a movie made me feel and think the way this film did.
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Frequencies is no masterpiece, but it flows like a video painting. A very, very slow and somewhat muddy one.
My partner and I nearly gave up at the half-way mark, thinking that the first story arc was all there was. "It's only half-way!!" went up the despairing cry, but for some reason we persisted.
The second half of the film does contain a few rewards here and there, but eventually you begin to tire, strongly, of the absolute babble that comprises the 'plot'. It's a mish-mash of stuff about patterns and free will and, really, it's just noise: it says nothing with any meaning. But it's quite pretty, almost charming as it goes along.
This movie, like a lot of stories of this ilk, reflects strong ignorance of science, physics, maths and nature by the makers. No I don't care if you are going to tell me they have a PhD or some such nonsense you feel like making up: they don't, or if they do it's an honourary one, and in the Arts.
For a start it never mentions Chaos Theory, but half of what they bang on about is covered well and truly under that study's umbrella. Then, after attempting to couch the whole thing as a bit of a Harry Potter type universe, with its own internal logics that owe nothing to history or science - which would have been fine, if only they had honoured their own rules - it makes the fatal mistake of trying to claw its way back to legitimacy; all rounded off with a glib and silly ending.
If Frequencies was a 40 minute short, I think it could be a lovely thing. As it is, at a mighty 105 minutes, which manages to feel more like 190, I can only give it a 4/10. (I gave it a 5 initially, but the more I think about Frequencies, the less I think *of* it).
A closing plea -
Somebody make me a definitive, scientific, weird and strange (preferably Quantum Physics based) story, without the mumbo jumbo: I beseech you! Keep the non-science majors out of the writing room, and bring them in only when their talents are needed to actually make the film.
Source Code had a try, but it too contains too much waffle.
Perhaps a filmic version of the author Greg Egan's novel "Quarantine"?
Now that would be something I would gladly sit through.
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Update:
Good lord... I found one! Made the same year!
Coherence (2013) - see it, it dumps on this piece of fluff and positively massacres rubbish like Mr. Nobody! -
Writer-Director Darren Paul Fischer's film 'Frequencies' is quite ambitious in nature, not by its budget, but by the number of intriguing themes it explores and way it makes us contemplate on them. The experimental film combines the themes of science fiction and romance to deal with profound philosophical questions.
The movie is set in a world where people are born with predetermined frequencies, which signifies one's luck and the rate of success in life. Nature favours high-frequencied people, and when a high born meets a low born, some reaction or disturbance occurs to stop this. So, many people try to understand the workings of nature and try finding ways which can alter the effect of such laws. This kind of concept doesn't need a big budget, special effects and such, to explore. A riveting story with proper elements can easily do the trick, and that's what Fischer does here.
Identity, luck, success, destiny, choice and accidental discovery are just the superficial themes of the film. The underlying themes and questions make the film much more fascinating. Like, one of the main ideas it touches is partial knowledge/information. In the film's story, characters determine solutions to their problems and workings of nature with the help of knowledge (partial or specific) they have regarding the subject, and with each new discovery of information, the understanding, and thus the solution keeps changing. In the same way, in the three segments of the film, we ourselves see how the revelation of new information makes us see the same scene in a different light. In that regard, the film and its philosophy combine to give us an elegant and artistic puzzle.
The casting is good, especially the cute younger versions of the characters. Sometimes, the dialogues seem a bit too expository and there are moments which remind us of the film's low budget, but the underlying philosophical questions keep us engaged enough not to be bothered by such trivial shortcomings. The brilliant cinematography and effective editing also play an important part to make the film tight and gripping. Like, even the varying colour tones of the scenes (red being low frequency, and purple being high) have meaning, and look beautiful in the storytelling process.
There is no question regarding the movie's intellect and scope, but a little more heart and soul would have made it perfect. A little more character depth would have helped as well. But that being said, its themes have been handled well, and for a runtime of 105 minutes, it maintains the right pace and dares to shower us with a bunch of thought-provoking ideas. -
xsemikina21 February 2021It has some interesting ideas, but their delivery lacks cohesion and step-by-step development, which in my view loses exactly the viewer it's meant to attract - the thinking, curious type. This is what we read in Wikipedia: "Zak discovers with Theo that sound waves, when combined with gibberish two-syllable words, are able to temporarily raise one's frequency. They create a cell phone device which, based on the environment, is able to determine which words can raise one's frequency." This is not what we see on the screen. We can just about figure out that the combination of sound waves and meaningless words can cause a fluctuation (we're still left to guess that the fluctuation means Zak's frequency is raised), but the creation of the cell phone device is left completely outside the narrative. We are expected to do the guess work every step of the way, but there's simply not enough material to arrive at determinant conclusions. And this is coming from a director who decided to resurrect the idea of scientific determinism, which had been buried at the turn of the 20th century. It totally makes sense that every human being should have a frequency, since every particle is also a wave (in itself not a deterministic concept), but the question what to make of it has not been answered with this effort.
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alyasabila13 September 2014I am satisfied by its magical, beautiful story, casts, all of it. At first, you'll think if it's kind of unravel romance story makes you cry bucket and bucket just because its classical plot. By the time you watch it, it slowly shifted to a bizarre sci-fi pumping up your heart beat.
It reveals how different type of frequency makes you hardly close to somebody. Philosophies inside was beyond thrilling. The arguments and points of view are quite interesting. It had my complete attention from beginning to end. It's mysterious, intelligent, intriguing, sweet, sad, philosophical, and emotional. Names inside are the famous geniuses people you know whose found and can't live without their own theory. Like how Isaac Newton was and how important weight, gravity, and apples were.
It was a long time that I was not so deeply and lightly and fully and gently pleased by a movie. The casts are so much great. -
d-2069019 September 2021This was a very surprising movie. I didn't expect much but it intrigued me.
Nice slow build but it kept surprising me. Great science fiction. Romance, suspense. Also general weirdness. -
I enjoyed the movie for the first 45 minutes. After that it was muddled up with authorities bashing the party, so to speak. I see this film as a love story first, but without much emotion. You don't feel the love in this movie like you would others for comparison.
With age progression in three spurts we are shown the interactions between a girl and a boy, but all for experimentation purposes. With both of them coming to the age where most of the movie occurs, we are filled with complex riddles and words which determines our actions, of which these actions are already predetermined beforehand, but you don't become aware of that until later on in the film.
I was left with my final thoughts on this film: It is a stupidly complex film without emotion, supposedly trying to make you think that life and the universe is just a code with all of our thoughts/actions/feelings being predetermined by such code. The love story was dull to say the least and the explanation at the end is missing much.