The Mandela Effect

Stumbled on to this last night and was very pleasantly surprised. It's one of those indy SciFi flicks that delivers ideas that leave you thinking long after you've forgotten the B-grade acting and production. (Movies like Listening, Coherence and the fantastic Primer come to mind.) If you are a science (especially if you like quantum physics) or movie nerd that likes a good think, I highly recommend it.

I highly enjoyed this. Loved the bro-in-law cast (Penguin). The premise is one of great interest to me and i watch anything with it. This is really high in my book, of a quality presentation of ideas.

The ending was fantastic. Exactly what i hoped for. Casting is great. Writing excellent. Direction on point. Give it 30min if you still hate it, it might not be for you. If you enjoy it at that point keep on. It's a great ride.

More people need to understand what indie cinema really is. Low budget build on concept and execution. For an 80 min independent film this is top notch production. The notion itself is enough to generate interest. And personally the ending is satisfying.

As a fan of conspiracies for entertainment purposes I was really happy to find this film. The acting was pretty good and the plot too, but I still felt something was lacking from the film. Might be more enjoyable for those who already know about this particular conspiracy, rather than for those who have never heard of it.

I grew up reading the Bernstein Bears and remember the books very clearly. Way later as an adult I was talking to someone about the books and they said the Berenstain Bears, which spawned an argument about what their name actually was. Come to find out there are a bunch more examples of this effect.

The movie does a great job in presenting several of the Mandela Effect issues and their basis in real science. Quantum physics, the multiverse theory (the real one not that Marvel crap), the holographic universe, all these point to much bigger things than we can currently understand.

I get why people can't connect to this movie, they can't wrap their head around the idea that what they consider reality may not actually be. That leads into meaning of life questions, concepts of God, and all sorts of existential reality crises. The average person can't handle that, so they freak out and refuse to think about it. Those of us who do question reality find the subjects very stimulating.

I think they did a good job wrapping up the movie. There were really only a couple plausible options for an ending and they choose the happy version. I can dig it.