On re-watch - it's an indie masterpiece

I’ve been meaning to watch this again recently as I heard a few theories about it. Coherence is a cheaply made film with big ideas and ambition. And it gets those ides mostly right. It’s a mind-bender that is so well thought out it is scary.

There are little hints in the script as to what we are seeing – ‘Sliding Doors’ and ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ for instance. We are seeing multiple dimensions take shape – and every instance in which there is a decision to be made – we are taken to a new reality, as per Schrodinger’s Cat. We the audience follow Em around, and she is the only constant in the whole film. Everything else is changing, because we are going into new realities all the time. We are seeing the realities take shape. Everytime there’s a powercut – new dimension. Everytime they go back in the house – new dimension. This is possibly why the characters have a hard time recalling certain things in the movie at points – because they have just arrived from a new reality.

The point of the film is to perhaps show us that every decision in our quest for happiness, no matter how small, can have lasting, irreversible effect. My tiny brain can’t even comprehend the vastness of the concept and how anyone can come up with it yet alone have the gumption and nous to put it into film. It may take another 2 or 3 watches to fully comprehend everything and find every clue. Plus the fact that this film is largely improve dialogue with only a few 'scriptmarkers' that the cast had to reach? Remarkable. Thank the lord we have movies like this to inspire both the viewer and future film-makers.

Coherence is an indie masterpiece.