COHERENCE FILM MOVIE
The group of actors Byrkit assembled for his film are mostly known for roles on various television shows, Nicholas Brendon being the most recognizable, but it’s the lack of big-name stars which gives the movie that air of reality, and thus the added science fiction elements become easier to digest as well by making them a little more grounded. Shot in continuity over five nights, at Byrkit’s home, the story of Coherence deals with eight people coming together for a dinner party on the night of a mysterious comet passing, and how the effects of said passing enfold. Written and directed by James Ward Byrkit the film Coherence is more of an “improv theatre experience” than it is an intricately plotted science fiction tale, as the actors received no script and they’d get notes each night based on each of their characters, and it would be up to Byrkit to guide the ensemble based on the treatment he had developed.
Coherence is a clever independent film, one that dabbles in the realm of metaphysical ideas and quantum mechanics, but as the cast of characters are just your average suburbanites we see such themes through the eyes of horror and paranoia. Never trust a comet – it’s as simple as that – if they aren’t blinding people ala Day of the Triffids they’re turning the population into red dust or mutants vis-à-vis Night of the Comet, but in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial debut the nature and effects of the comet are of a more subtle and insidious nature.
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