

COHERENCE 2013 HOW TO
They discuss how to deal with the other house.

They surmise that an area of dense darkness outside in the darkened neighborhood will send anyone who passes through it to a different reality's house.

They speculate that the comet has created two split realities, one of which will collapse once the comet has passed. Hugh goes to his car to retrieve his physicist brother's book, which explains the concept of quantum decoherence. On the way there, they encounter a wandering group of exact doubles of them, carrying red glow sticks rather than blue, causing each group to flee back to their houses. Emily, Kevin, Mike, and Laurie decide to go to the other house together, carrying the glow sticks for light. Hugh decides to write a note to leave at the other house, only for a man to approach the house and pin an exact copy of the note to their door before Hugh can go and place it on theirs. Emily writes down the numbers from the box on a notepad, looking for a pattern, but cannot find one. The group realize the other house is an alternate version of the one they are in. Hugh, deeply upset, reveals that he looked into the other house and saw a table set for a dinner party with eight places. When Hugh and Amir return, both have face wounds and are carrying a box which turns out to contain a ping-pong paddle and photographs of everyone, including one of Amir that could only have been taken that night, with numbers written on the backs. Beth's husband Hugh and Amir decide to go to the lit-up house and ask to use their phone, as Hugh's brother insisted Hugh call him if "anything strange" were to happen. When they go back inside, they notice a broken glass no-one remembers damaging. The entire neighborhood has gone dark except for one house that still has power. The friends each take a blue glow stick, then venture outside where they see the comet passing overhead. Laurie is Kevin's ex-girlfriend, who flirts inappropriately and wants Kevin back.ĭuring dinner, the conversation becomes strained by the animosity between Emily's close friend Beth and Laurie, compounded when Laurie antagonizes Emily by bringing up a ballet role she lost by waiting too long to decide.Īs a power outage occurs, Mike and Lee bring candles and several boxes of different colored glow sticks to use for light. To the party-goers' dismay, their friend Amir has brought Laurie along with him. One of the guests, Emily, hesitates over whether to accompany her boyfriend Kevin on an extended business trip to Vietnam. On the night of Miller's Comet's passing, eight friends in Northern California reunite for a dinner party at the home of spouses Mike and Lee. The film had its world debut on September 19, 2013, at Fantastic Fest and stars Emily Foxler as a woman who must deal with strange occurrences following the close passing of a comet. Coherence is a 2013 American surreal science fiction psychological thriller film directed by James Ward Byrkit in his directorial debut.
