Is this possible or am i wrong? The constant is these characters are always connected. At the start of the movie, at around 2:41 when Em arrives, she rings the doorbell and then shows up in the kitchen. As James Ward Byrkit said, the fade to black scenes have a meaning to the movie plot, and i believe i figured it out. dorsum nudum The unofficial script may just be some patient soul taking it down word for word and also hearing “you” where I hear “Hugh.” What’s going on there ? This is a different Kevin. She has no logical explanation at all to explain her doppleganger. I just watched the movie and stumbled on this page. Typing via a phone…. When Mike makes the (now realised) joke about ‘understudy for life’ he looks across as if to address an Em that is outside. first oppresses I think this is why the director made it such a point to show Em looking through all the windows at the end. but are those the same people? So i think there is no real logic to all of this, either there is something else going on entirely, but i dont think so, i think the writer just threw in those two things at the end to confuse people a little bit and leave it as a mistery, he probably wants every person to make their own interpretation of the movie, and leave it all a mistery without a logical explanation. Kevin decides to leave to get them back. Huge Coherence fan, this is honestly an amazing theory/explanation, I've literally been sitting here for the past hour trying to really get my head around it. We see Lee-nap because Em walls back into a house with Lee was absent. The only facts we have is that it exists and crossing through it brings you to an alternate reality/chain-of-events. 5) WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT EFFECT THE COMET EXPLODING HAD ON THE ANOMALY. — James Ward Byrkit (@JamesWardByrkit) April 3, 2016, Maybe we could abduct him, and force him to put out a news release saying that he was wrong, and that Coherence really is a time travel movie? Maybe one that never regained conciousness in the car until morning, maybe one that was been drugged and delirious that wandered into the final reality and just passed out somewhere outside.. It’s hard to say because there were Emily’s everywhere switching through reality’s so it makes sense that another one had found there was there too and spent the night. She also seems seated quite near the lamp. All? It’s a great movie. Then, it’s a loop, and the basic storyline is happening over and over again? like why did you say kevin wants her to move to Paris… the movie states it is Vietnam (laurie’s convo in thenhallwaybwith kevin). That would all explain the absence of a body from the bathtub that Beth was showering in during the closing minutes of the movie. The story you told about the woman who killed her double husband. I’m glad I’ve found it. Here’s final picture of all houses and character movements. IF EM CAN GO SEEKING HER IDEALIZED REALITY, SO CAN THEY ALL. Someone is on their front door. Emily from the current reality goes to check on her car. Hello. He had mentioned that they needed to talk and they needed to make a decision. Great question. You will eat it for lunch. I just assumed it was weird lighting in a low budget movie. Mike has a similar box so he tries to use his key to open it, it opens. so it implies if d quantum decoherence goes wrong there,s an unusual power shut down! I assume Em1 put the ring on because she felt threatened by Laurie after hearing from Beth that Kevin and Laurie were talking in the hallway, and Kevin wanted to avoid the topic. Therefore Emx is “alive” or “until” someone opens the trunk (box). Using that secret he wants to blackmail his other self from getting that book from the car. Coherence, on the other hand, provides someone whose extreme actions are painfully relatable. However, she looks guilty instead of confused when the call comes from EmX and she gets the second ring, so this is unlikely. This would suggest that the guests (or at least some of them) drove through the dark spot on their way to the dinner. But that doesn’t explain the ending. At one point, when everyone’s trying to figure out what the hell is going on, Laurie brings up Sliding Doors, the Gwyneth Paltrow movie about two alternate realities that diverge based on whether the heroine boards or just misses a train. Just trust me. Mike gets Emily Prime the set of pics, “their copy” of what was in the box and hands her scissors. throughout the movie there wer black outs and also sudden power shut downs. I plan on watching again and paying attention to a) the fadeouts and their timing, b) the keys hanging by the door, c) the blackouts of power and c Bottom line is that each of these realities have done something slightly different from each other. Did she poof out of thin air when Em1 collapsed? The big guys leaves. Needless to say after tossing this concept back and forth a couple hours we ended up in smugly confused and reassuringly affirming each other’s sanity with pathetic fist bumps. What’s important here is that proverbial S hits the F all based on Hugh’s prioritization order of his brother’s two instructions, which are to (a) not go outside and (b) contact him. Ooh I like where this is going. My evidence for this is them all leaving the house early in the movie to look up at the comet, and returning to find the one wine glass broken… This would also explain the whole “Emily’s sweater” question in the finale. Em1 sees her thinking she is EmX and hits her thinking she is dead. *- up to $3.99, terms and conditions apply, proof of rental receipt is required. But as for your 5,038,848 – I have no idea. Em1 needed a chance to find Kevin1 and make amends. Has anyone made a breakthrough or asked the director what it is or if he could please explain how Em’s body in the tub goes missing? She wakes up the next morning on the sofa. compared to everyone else. Let’s say instead of a cat with poison there is a coin instead. He’s regularly available for a chat conversation on his website and consults on storyboarding from time to time. I would have thought that would be the first question to ask him. Wasn’t she teetering on dumping that guy in the beginning? Do the characters look through the windows of houses until they find one they are not in? She literally had to fight for her place in it. The only movie more complicated would be Primer… and nothing will ever become more complicated than that particular head-job. But if they have no knowledge of the previous night’s events, how does he even compute that? Were they able to communicate with Hugh’s brother and learn how very important it was to stay put? Hey taylor, i loved the article and it made me watch the movie again the very next minute. Emily Prime gets frustrated and leaves. disappeared because two Ems could not be in the house at the same time at the moment of the comet exploding. Spoiler alert, obviously. Hi All, I’m well late to this party as I was only turned on to this film at the weekend but I think I’m close to having it but not quite (big caveat at the end) after supplementing my original thoughts with some of your theories: Schrodingers cat is all about decisions which spawn new dimensions, so track all the major decisions and then start on the little ones and it’ll all become clearer (although some things still baffle me). If we remove it being Em then it’s a whole other complication wheee lol… :), Hey Taylor, awesome review. Each of the realities have gotten into fights of their own. – Did the alternate realities start to split off only after the coming of the comet? Amir is looking at the camera but doesn’t remember being snapped. In other words, I think that there were at least 3 Emily’s present in House-X at one time or another in the closing minutes of the movie. Lee mentions about Mike’s drinking problem. In the process, she drops her ring. They are tangible while the comet is there but we wouldn’t expect anyone to find them after. She doesn’t cut the pic. Hugh mentions that his brother asks him to call if anything strange happens as the comet passes over. She comes to House3 – it’s item is a Monkey, and keeps going, When she arrives at House4, someone smashes the window of the car outside and then someone says, “Why would they break the window if there was no book in the car?” because they are aware that in some timelines the book stayed in the car, but not in this one. Well done sir, well done. Lee was sleeping because Beth gives her the drops. He will answer probably even before I finish this comment. And at that moment KevX sees that he got a voicemail from EmX. She had to park aways down the road and probably walked through the ‘vortex’ and unkowingly had already crossed to a nearer parallel universe… we meet the friends-v1 after following Em-v0 into house-v1. That sentiment of the human mind resisting the perfect is straight out of the Matrix. Mike has had a history of drinking problem, which he has overcome. Only in this movie instead of two outcomes there are infinite. Which led me to a similar conclusion. Hey there Meera – And what we are witnessing is the universe trying to repair that paradox. Is that what allows for this? So either his look of accusation is suggestive of him having a better grasp than maybe he should (he’s a replacement too), or … (and I think my next idea is more likely), It’s Laurie saying “I just found Em’s cell phone under Amir’s bed…”. Work? Em1 beats Em? Well, we see that EmX isn’t going without a fight. And she only moves when she crosses the street. Happy Life Em that Em Prime spies on is wearing black polka dot socks when she is on the couch with Mike. Mike decides to have a drink. In other words, if the quantum theory was presented in a way that did not include the element of life or death, then subconsciously Mike would not fear for his life. Which means Mike3 has to have been Mike1 and randomly arrived back with Em1. We reach the scene right before Laurie and Amir arrive, when Kevin and Em are talking about the trip and her decision. I had one question that is maybe really dumb/obvious that I would catch the second time I watched, but figured I would ask here. What a great upside down perspective that actually pulls the pieces together quite nicely. Remember how to one Kevin the ring held a lot of sentiment while to the other Kevin it didn’t? What caused Em1 to collapse? Maybe in this very moment she suddenly does not talk to the same Kev any more but to another one. Great comments! interesting note was made on one forum. and weighted down, And if one came and one left, the same could be said about their things. Bell rings. Em1 & Kevin1 have a conversation wherein Kevin attempts to convince Em to make a decision to go with him. When she finds the KevinX and EmX that are giggling happily on the couch together she knows she’s found the one that said yes. Amir and Hugh decide to go to the other house to try and make contact with Hugh’s brother. A bit of a stretch that the theory was introduced by a brother who just so happened to study quantum physics and had a left a book and his papers at hugh’s house…. But I was focusing on Emily, and everyone else in relation to Emily. All of that. So we have two Emily’s attempting to switch the state before it is observed! He says he’s made his set of bad decisions and is now stuck in this reality. We had brought each other the same CD: Beautiful Freak by Eels. If so, at what point is that, and is that Original Em that figures it out (I’m guessing when she starts asking people if they remember their numbers). Taylor. Then, about twenty minutes into the movie I think? Phone call in the end is where Kevin finds out glitch in that particular reality, for him it makes no sense, but she is very well aware what it might be. Then we have a bunch of details added to let us know this rabbit-hole goes deep. They come back with the book. I’m confident you track with what I’m interested in so this is more journeys I can go on and then pester you about lol. Firstly – great breakdown and great comments! What I do not “like” in this discussion is that we talk about someone going back to a reality x, y, z. It wasn’t always perfectly timed. Because when Em puts another Em into the trunk, she goes back in the house and she sees another one comming from the bathroom, and she looks at her like “OMG….another one”. That now sweaterless Emily then sees another Emily crawling into the bathroom and the sweaterless Emily follows her into the bathroom and assaults her with the toilet tank lid and hides her in the bathtub as the lights continually flicker on and off. Firstly, So yeah, you are correct. I’ll be back in, like, five minutes. Later these sort of problems develop… but it seems highly improbable that they ended up back at a house in remarkably similar circumstances. There are multiple endings co-existing. I prefer to look at this being the first major choice she made inside the anomaly. What do you think? (Samuel Barber’s “Adagio” might rank a close second). Em-1 that we had been following all along; Em-X who was originally from House-X; and at least one other Emily . I wish I could access the DVD right now but i can’t. There hasnt been a movie that worked my mind this much, maybe ever. She bailed, she had something else planed. That moment is after Hugh mentions the theory of Schrodinger’s Cat. Why consider that stranger to be your enemy? Perhaps…all the negative of Em – pre-division, re -comet? driven on and so if the “sweater discrepancy” was unintentional, then I don’t think there’s any need for a “fourth Emily in House X” explanation. *Hugh4 and Amir3 steal the book and the photos and leave. What still bothers me is why Em passes out after coming out of the bathroom. you are malevolent, Nevermind, I had a discussion with my sister and she enlightened me to the fact that if Em1 were to take the place of an Emily who did not quit the understudy position, Em1 would still not know what it was like to perform in the show, since it happened in the past. His love for movies and production has led him to write his well-received film explanation and analysis articles to help everyone appreciate the films better. It isn’t about which version of a Em or any other character we are observing. Emily Prime opens the door to see a note that reads “Hey there, don’t mean to freak you guys but we just wanted to borrow your phone for 5 min tops. It’s pretty obvious that this is intentional to keep track of the different houses. when the group discusses the book, Mike, Lee or someone says that the house is the box, they are the cat. It’s been 10 min since Hugh and Amir have left. But, if it is the latter, she doesn’t KNOW that. The group outside on the patio watches the comet, sees it start to disintegrate, and the lights suddenly go out and everything goes black. Because they have the same number, so the antenna physically would connect her to the Kevin from her world, and not this one. Let’s say the Kevin at the car who answers the phone is Perfect House Kevin. The frequent counter raised to this is, if there are infinite branching universes out there, why do they all result in this exact same dinner party? Besides, I think there are some flaws in Taylor’s explained story, and I’m going to present another theory explaining the plot. to your villainy. If the article doesn’t answer all of your questions, drop me a comment or an FB chat message, and I’ll get you the answer to your question. Em1 is outted as an imposter in the final moments of the movie. Dr. Jones commented that “God’s wrath doesn’t require her belief…” which was in reference to God still seeing things that occurred in other timelines that get overwritten. est affectus “Sweaterless intruder Emily” (either Em-1 or Em-Z) could have gotten that needle with Ketamine before “sweater intruder Emily” came in through the back kitchen door and took the Ketamine bottle to dose Em-X with – especially if “sweaterless intruder Emily” was indeed inside the house already during that quick shot of her standing next to the baseball bat. What happens here or in the other realities, well, that’s not part of the Coherence movie. This clever, mostly improvised, brain-teasing drama, by screenwriter-turned-director James Ward Byrkit (he wrote the cartoon Rango), concerns eight friends who … Here are links to the key aspects of the movie: The gist of the film Coherence is that 6 people come over for dinner to a couple’s place. 32:46 – Em and 3 leave house1 I have to admit it bugs me to not know as the rest of the movie seems so perfectly done that the ending is weirdly inexplicable. and veiled We know that an Em who we assume to be Em1, and would make sense from a protagonist perspective in storytelling, decides to usurp the position of EmP, who is in the house that has not participated. I have spent the last hour after watching this movie on the rabbithole of these comments and I’m not disappointed! Next scene, Em is sweaterless and inside the house. Later that night, I seduced her by talking about my favorite new subject at the time, which was the many-worlds interpretation (I think I almost overused the words “Just imagine…”). ... may explain … Affairs. Just my thoughts. I enjoyed your analysis, and your sketches and timeline are very impressive! Regular physics would say the cat is either alive or dead. I assumed the entire time that the Em in the bathtub was a different Em who also left the house looking for her perfect reality and that EmX was calling from the car. – Are you sure that… Oh, that must’ve been another girl… Just thought of another question I’ll tack on here. For example, when Amir and Hugh first go outside quickly, you can hear Hugh say “Ow”, almost as if he already hit his head then. Anyone notice when Hugh calculate possibilies on mobile phone, it shows network on it! This is true if you are traveling in groups.. Not necessarily if you are traveling by yourself.. Just want to know how many times did you watch this movie? This is further supported by Laurie saying to Kevin she had to do yoga for a week after the Sharks game. Mike suggests all of them should go to the other house to check if their doubles are there. → Em¹ passes out. Need to watch again. Mike says he was gone 45min. I feel like I traveled to the future. Coherence Movie Fade to black index – There are a ton of movies like this one on this blog that we have been discussing and “traveling into the future” as we do. Could there be any relevance to this? I don’t have a lot of coherent thoughts right now, but here’s what’s floating around in my head right now. Well, I would welcome that theory being true… because I can’t make heads or tails out of his comments otherwise. Also, the reason why Em is collapsing is unclear. But if you accompany those hints with other changes in the scenery I think it has more meaning. 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