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Multiverse

It is not a style of critical writing.  It is the possibility that multiple universes co-exist.  We live in one version.  There may be others.

This is the premise of a European sci-fi drama I just watched. It is called Mr. Nobody.  The premise of the film is captured in one sentence that a young boy explains somewhere during the course of the film - If you do not make a choice anything is possible.

So the dilemma of choice is explained in the form of multiple lives that the protagonist ends up living.  Each in its version of reality.  This is one movie where you could start watching at any point and it would not make much difference.  You could even watch it backward since time is elusive in the film.

If you are likely to get confused watching it in linear time then you will watching it in reverse.  And the other way round.  As in if you do not get confused with all that is going on then you won't.

This subject is borderline metaphysical and is a debate for the ages.  What is real and what is not?  Do we fully understand if we are living?  What is life and what is death?  How do we remember things?  What is memory? 

Fairly intriguing to start but then gets repetitive in its delivery although some of the special effects are cool.  I think if I remember right.

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