Frequencies (2013)

Long time since I've seen such movie which makes you think, and adore the imagination put in this film. A genuine art cinema which has an enormous potential to carry on his shoulders and make an example for modern generation filmmakers.

I normally go for the movies which has higher user/critic ratings or if I have good recommendation for it, but this movie was exception to that. Surprisingly this movie rises up your expectation from the start and keep on raising that bar right till the end.

Storyline moves through different twist, angles making you to focus on it and get very much involved in it. It doesn't bore you with details rather it wants you to keep your focus on the character which I think makes this movie even more fun to watch.

Darren, Writer/director gives an refreshing, new way of looking at what we call the chemistry between two people.

All and all, go for this movie and expect a smart, refreshing , brilliantly executed cinema based on intelligent script.

Fmovies: Frequencies is no masterpiece, but it flows like a video painting. A very, very slow and somewhat muddy one.

My partner and I nearly gave up at the half-way mark, thinking that the first story arc was all there was. "It's only half-way!!" went up the despairing cry, but for some reason we persisted.

The second half of the film does contain a few rewards here and there, but eventually you begin to tire, strongly, of the absolute babble that comprises the 'plot'. It's a mish-mash of stuff about patterns and free will and, really, it's just noise: it says nothing with any meaning. But it's quite pretty, almost charming as it goes along.

This movie, like a lot of stories of this ilk, reflects strong ignorance of science, physics, maths and nature by the makers. No I don't care if you are going to tell me they have a PhD or some such nonsense you feel like making up: they don't, or if they do it's an honourary one, and in the Arts.

For a start it never mentions Chaos Theory, but half of what they bang on about is covered well and truly under that study's umbrella. Then, after attempting to couch the whole thing as a bit of a Harry Potter type universe, with its own internal logics that owe nothing to history or science - which would have been fine, if only they had honoured their own rules - it makes the fatal mistake of trying to claw its way back to legitimacy; all rounded off with a glib and silly ending.

If Frequencies was a 40 minute short, I think it could be a lovely thing. As it is, at a mighty 105 minutes, which manages to feel more like 190, I can only give it a 4/10. (I gave it a 5 initially, but the more I think about Frequencies, the less I think *of* it).

A closing plea -

Somebody make me a definitive, scientific, weird and strange (preferably Quantum Physics based) story, without the mumbo jumbo: I beseech you! Keep the non-science majors out of the writing room, and bring them in only when their talents are needed to actually make the film.

Source Code had a try, but it too contains too much waffle.

Perhaps a filmic version of the author Greg Egan's novel "Quarantine"?

Now that would be something I would gladly sit through.

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Update:

Good lord... I found one! Made the same year!

Coherence (2013) - see it, it dumps on this piece of fluff and positively massacres rubbish like Mr. Nobody!

This truly could have been an amazing film deserving of much more than a tepid-warm 7/10.

At first you get the feeling that you're going to watch a love story unravel... but this slowly shifts between romance, science fiction and thriller at points. I barely noticed the transition myself... much in the way that District 9 morphs from a documentary into a science fiction tale seamlessly. They balanced each with precision so you don't know quite what you're watching at any given moment.

This film tries to convey many different concepts and fringe concepts ranging from physics to philosophy... but does not appropriate them convincingly or with clarity. I fully understood what it was trying to do and say... but it had tried to make the web of intrigue too intricate. It had many holes and unexplained loose ends which towards the middle made it unbelievable and pretentious. You know what they say - the more complex something is... the more chance there is of something going wrong. That applies with anything from technology to relationships (or storytelling in this case).

The merit of this film mainly lies in it's simpler plot points, the acting and direction.

If you're one of those people who doesn't believe that even fiction has to be believable (to some extent) to be enjoyable or you simply just don't understand what the concept of OXV is... then this is your film.

Frequencies fmovies. Watched purely on the strength of the other 3 reviews. Maybe they were fan boys but this was like watching a low budget British TV movie that had been commissioned by BBC Three to a fresh out of film school director with a decent idea. Ignore the comparisons with Eternal Sunshine, Primer and Waking Life, it's a very, very long way from any of them.

Some nice ideas but ultimately a muddled storyline, especially toward the end. Acting was decent for a low budget British movie but I don't think anyone will look back in years to come and think that this was to the director what Pi was to Aronofsky or Following was to Nolan.

This is the best movie I've seen in years. Everything is brilliantly conceived and executed -- from the script, to the cinematography, to the casting, to the acting.

It's one part science fiction; one part existential philosophy; and two parts, the mad connect-the-dot ramblings of a drug-induced psychotic break.

Director Darren Paul Fisher pulled off the combination -- which I refer to as Sci-Phil -- as brilliantly as my favorite director, Darren Aronofsky.

Hmm... they're both named Darren. I think I see a pattern beginning to emerge.

This movie is pretty savvy to say the least. It's also one of those cases where it merits more than one viewing to fully understand and appreciate what is going on. While the front is a romantic comedy with a Science Fiction touch, the Sci-Fi part is actually a lot bigger than you may think at first. Or maybe you thought about it or read about it already, but whatever the case, experiencing this movie, is a blast to say the least.

We have more time-lines and more jumps than some people will be able to handle or even want to handle. There's a point where things can seem to be too much. And after a couple of twists you may find yourself going "come on". But if you are like me and those other people who loved this, you'll actually be craving for more ... which is something the director is hinting at towards the end ... visually but also in his commentary!