- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version
- needed to precede following dl
- Languages:
- Length:
- 84 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2012
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Science‑Fiction
- Director:
Director 
James Ward Byrkit- Outstanding Performances:
- None.
- Premiss:
- A passing comet has surreral effects on reality for a group of friends at a dinner party.
- Themes:
- Aggression | Alienation | Capitalism | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Political | Political Correctness | Propaganda | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Science | Self‑Esteem | Sex | Solipsism | Totalitarianism | The West | White culture | White people | White supremacy
- Similar to:
Would that I were you
A group of superficial, easily‑panicked and somewhat stupid Whites gather for dinner and experience a quantum event that leaves them doubting the reality they thought they understood.
As with all White attempts to deny reality and replace it with something more interesting than the everyday, workaday mundanity that is White culture, this movie posits the idea that the thought experiment of Schroedinger’s cat makes some kind of sense; rather than being a dead‑end hypothesis of a world of physics that has simply run out of new and workable ideas.
Underneath the sans souci of White familiarity, there is paranoia, schizophrenia, insecurity & self‑loathing: The belief that talking about life is just as good as, if not better than, actually living it.
The emotional hesitancy of the characters reflects their unwillingness to understand their experience and to know what to do and, more importantly, what not to do about the essential emptiness of their lives. The fundamental fear expressed here is that one’s friends will either not mature or mature at a different rate than each other and that this will mean loneliness unless each person represses the others to prevent them from growing‑up (& moving‑on) so that the appearance of social conformity and equality can be maintained.
The characters live off each other, rather than with each other; using each other as emotional crutches because they cannot see themselves for whom they truly are since they are so busy running away from their true natures. Yet, without any self‑knowledge (subjective reality), one has no yardstick for comparison with other people’s self‑presentation. Without any grasp of the objective reality external to oneself, one similarly lacks a yardstick to compare other people’s comments or behavior to. Without a deep‑seated character to express or conceal, this movie becomes more of a horror‑story for Whites (about Whites), than the science‑fiction movie it claims to be.
There is, moreover, an odd, nosey‑parker tendency among these so‑called friends, allied with a faux‑innocent desire to convince others that everything they say is true; while being surrounded by people who disbelieve others because they are just as prone to telling lies – so think everyone else is just as mendacious. The emotional failures’ desire to be someone other than themselves is evident here but, again, is never dramatically explored.
As a character‑study, this movie fails to differentiate its characters, so that they all appear to be facets of a single, energetic Caucasian; bereft of any full grounding in the facts of objective reality. The movie occupies the same quantum space as its characters; allowing the audience no opportunity to properly reflect on what is being watched because the film itself possesses no self‑understanding that would make any rational comprehension possible.
Entertaining, but ultimately as thin, meager & as unfulfilling as its characters, plot & story.
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