Parallel review – nonsense in the multiverse
A portal to alternate realities doesn’t lead to an inspiring plot in Isaac Ezban’s Canadian sci-fi drama
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A portal to alternate realities doesn’t lead to an inspiring plot in Isaac Ezban’s Canadian sci-fi drama
Four friends living together and working to develop an app discover a hidden room in their house and, in it, a magic mirror that can portal them to different, but nearly indistinguishable, parallel universes. Eager to capitalize on the nearly unlimited resources of the multiverse, Leena (Georgia King), Noel (Martin Wallström), Devin (Aml Ameen), and Josh (Mark O’Brien) soon devise a number of get-rich-quick schemes, mostly at the expense of their own parallel selves. Their pursuits of money, power, lust, love, and second chances start to reveal fractures in their friendship and in their mo...
A certain odd feeling probably crossed your mind as you’re dashing past a building. You might still experience this occasionally. That is if the building sports a glass front entrance or window. Catching your reflection, you might first think,” Ugh, bad hair day” or “ I’d better just have a salad for lunch.”. But if you’re not in a mad hurry you may wonder if you’ve got an exact twin somewhere. Or taking it further, what if there’s another “me” in an almost identical “now”. And is this reflection a window into that duplicate world? That’s an idea that’s been ex...