Synchronicity (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Synchronicity |
| Original title | Synchronicity |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacob Gentry |
| script | Jacob Gentry |
| production |
Christopher Alender , Alexander Motlagh |
| music | Ben Lovett |
| camera | Eric Maddison |
| cut | Jacob Gentry |
| occupation | |
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Synchronicity is an American science fiction film from 2015 . Jacob Gentry is the author, director and film editor . The physicist Jim Beale (played by Chad McKnight ) develops a time machine and, as the film progresses, gets scared that someone might steal his invention. In Germany, the premiere fell on May 6, 2016.
action
The physicist Jim Beale is working with two colleagues, Chuck and Matty, on a machine that makes time travel possible. You create one half of a wormhole in the first pass and the second half in the later second pass. The process is dangerous and expensive because it works with radioactive material (in the film it is referred to as the MRD unit). The only company that makes this substance is Klaus Meisner, a venture capitalist.
If the substance is incorrectly inserted into the machine, this leads to a malfunction which ends in a major explosion. During the first test run, Beale receives a genetically modified flower from the wormhole. Beale can only prove his invention when he can start a second test with Meisner's material. Meisner insists on 49% ownership of the invention. The test run is scheduled for seven days after the first test.
Shortly after the first test, Beale meets Abby Ross, who knows too much about him for the meeting to be accidental. He is attracted to her, but at the same time suspicious. He is confirmed when he receives a call from Chuck warning him about Abby and informing him that they have achieved more in the test than they previously thought. Although Beale immediately makes his way to the laboratory, Chuck refuses to give him an explanation. Beale later ignores the warnings and begins a relationship with Ross. They develop a deep relationship that is destroyed when Abby Ross tells Klaus Meisner about the flower. Since he has the intellectual rights to the flower, he forces Beale to give him another 50 percent, which means that Beale only retains one percent ownership of his invention.
Heartbroken and not completely in her mind, Beale jumps into the wormhole during the second test and is transported a week into the past. He is convinced that with his "second attempt" he can outsmart Meisner and Abby and thus prevent the loss of his invention. He seduces Abby, but quickly realizes that she is genuinely attracted to him: She is a writer and, after reading an article about Beale, writes a fictional story like Beale (John Bain). After learning more about Beale from Klaus Meisner and Beale, she is now in love with him.
As Beale reads the fictional story, he finds that it is both a slightly inaccurate account of his work and incomplete. Now there are also complications: The "second Jim" (jumped through the wormhole) is physically weakened when he is near the "first Jim". The "second Jim" reveals himself to Chuck and Matty in the hope that they can protect their research together. Both help him and hide him from the "first Jim" and explain some confusing encounters from the week between the first and second test. The second is jealous of the first Jim, but it turns out that this is unfounded. The "first" is still suspicious of Abby and it is obvious that he doesn't want anything to do with her after the second test.
The "second Jim" is getting weaker and weaker. He discovers Abby's notebook again (this time in Matty's hands) and is confused - in the first timeline it was in her apartment. Matty says he found it in Beale's jacket pocket when he jumped back through the wormhole. The notebook is now slightly changed and makes it clear that Beale did not jump back in time, but into the past of a parallel universe. Chuck says that it is impossible for two Beales to exist in the same universe at the same time and therefore the universe tries to remove the second (i.e. wrong) Beale again.
Equipped with this new knowledge, Beale wants to travel back one more time with the help of Chuck and Matty. However, you will make a mistake and the wormhole will not open. The radioactive material is completely used up so that you cannot make a new attempt. The day of the second test begins (again). Beale finds another time-displaced person dead in the hotel room with Jim after he tries to leave town. The second test runs as before, but when Abby returns to the hotel, Beale has already died.
In the last scene Abby is sitting alone in a bar when the "first Jim" - obviously healthy and happy - sits down at her table. Abby notices the resemblance to John Bain, a scientist she is writing about. According to her, John Bain was killed in a devastating explosion in his laboratory.
The unspoken implication is that the "first Jim" would not die like Beale, as he entered a parallel universe with an already deceased Jim Beale (called John Bain due to the variances between parallel universes).
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Beale | Chad McKnight | Marcus Off |
| Abby Ross | Brianne Davis | Milena Karas |
| Chuck | AJBowen | |
| Matty | Scott Poythress | Marco Sven Reinbold |
| Klaus Meisner | Michael Ironside | Thomas Balou Martin |
Web links
- Synchronicity in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Synchronicity . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Synchronicity. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 26, 2017 .