Are alternate universes really parallel?
Some time ago I talked about the Mexican director Isaac Ezban who, in 2014, made his debut with the fascinating and too cryptic “El Incidente” (The Incident) and then, the following year, made “Los Parecidos” (The Similars ), a work that is equally cryptic but less refined, metaphysical and philosophical than the previous one.
In 2018 the first film was released with an adequate Canadian-style production, which allowed Ezban to make a film with a higher technical level while always maintaining a sufficiently interesting narrative.
“Parallel” tells the story of four guys who work in a team and who try to market their app (dedicated to the management of city traffic) to investors; although the software is appreciated, the company that intends to purchase it offers a deadline for receiving the final version, i.e. a few days later.
The two guys on the team presenting the app are amazed, it will take no less than four months to go from the beta version to the definitive version, therefore the proposal is absolutely inadmissible; the company replies that another software house has presented an almost identical app and is ready to deliver it next week...
The two boys return to the others and inform him of the failure of the presentation but, at the same time, they strongly suspect a friend of theirs, a former member of the team, who knows a lot about the work they have developed over the years: is he the one who is putting a spoke in the group's wheels?
<0 >Disconsolate and without a real alternative, the group seems on the verge of dismemberment: someone wants to leave, someone else wants to accept the proposal for another completely different job.
< 0>In releasing their annoyance and anger, the group discovers that, inside the house they live in, there is a wall beyond which there seems to be a whole other part of the house that is completely unknown, until now...< 0>
By breaking the fake wall, they go up to the attic and find a mirror which, if appropriately oriented, you can go beyond it, reaching other alternative realities and the realities are infinite…
The trend of Time is also completely wrong: one minute in lived reality corresponds to three hours in alternative realities...
From this moment the film starts and we will see some good things because the group senses that reality could change in their favor but has not also contemplated the risks of an absolute worsening...
To see.
