Frequencies

A world in which people are born with a frequency: those with a high one find everything going their way, those with a low one meet constant misfortune. Zoe has the highest value and Marcus the lowest, and when the time they spend together passes one minute, everything around them begins to break. The film is not interested in its science fiction rule. It is interested in whether fate can be broken: for years Marcus looks for a way around the system and finds it in music, in language and in conditioning. The film divides this into three parts and tells the same events from different points of view. The form does not try to hide the budget: plain locations, few actors, long conversations. The idea is kept ahead of the look. Darren Paul Fisher wrote and directed. It is a British independent and became known on the festival circuit. Daniel Fraser and Eleanor Wyld lead. Who it is for: viewers who like argumentative, idea-driven science fiction and low-budget British films. Who it is not for: anyone expecting a coherently built world. The film keeps expanding its own rules and the explanations pile up in the final section.