Parallel (2024)
8/10
Great Little Indy Sci-Fi Movie with a Fantastic Theme
19 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I feel bad for some of the folk on here who "missed" the movie, which is a great little indy scifi movie starring just 3 people in a variety of roles.

Our protaganist finds a portal in the woods near her family estate that leads to various multiverses and a struggle to get back home to her own.

The acting of each of these three as they portray their dopplegangers is very well done, as you can physically tell the difference between certain ones by demeanor and conversation.

The theme of this movie is grief. Our protaganist and her husband are sufferring a horrible loss, and this movie does a great job not just displaying dopplegangers as various stages of grief, but also landing its ending which, is so subtle, i felt was lost on many.

This movie does not have a happy ending. As the divorced husband says, every reality the son dies. Not dealing with trauma and grief properly could very well force you to relive it all over again, which she is going to do as her son has just not yet died.

I first thought the movie copped out by reviving the son. As the credits rolled I realized what the true ending was as the excellent writing of this movie layed so many clues for what this ending is. The son dies in every reality. Sometimes time is off in realities.
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