8/10
Multiplicity
17 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This film should be retitled "I Almost Married a Serial Killer Twice"!!!

Camille "Cam" Fieri, the protagonist, falls in love with the suave and dashing Rafael DuPont. After visiting her college classroom where Cam is lecturing on true crime in literature, Rafael is almost to the point of proposing marriage to her. But Cam blunders into his garage, discovers that he is a serial killer, and that she is next on his list.

Cam gets the drop on Rafael, and he is arrested, then put on trial. Convicted of six life sentences, Rafael is set for life behind bars. After Cam goes back to her normal life with her teenage daughter, Violet, Rafael seduces a female guard at the penitentiary, and, with her assistance, he makes a daring escape!

Suddenly, two FBI agents are knocking on Cam's door, and they immediately relocate her in a witness protection program far away in California. But Cam then makes two major mistakes. First, she gives her neighbor a "burner" in which to phone her if her ailing father takes a turn for the worse. The dad may or may not have had a heart attack, and the neighbor phones Cam in California. But the diabolical Rafael steals the burner from the friend, discovers Cam's whereabouts, gets plastic surgery so he won't be recognized, and makes a beeline for California. It turns out that Cam never even follows up about her dad's heart condition.

Cam's second mistake is committed after she and Violet have moved to Willowfield (near Paso Robles). Cam simply cannot refrain from starting a new romantic relationship with a kind farmer and horse-breeder named Brian. As depicted in this film, the master seducer Rafael is able to morph into a new form. This is the principle of multiplicity! When it comes to Farmer Brian, the filmmakers do an excellent job in pulling the wool over Cam's eyes, as well as those of the audience!

There was a clever plot twist in the middle of the film that had a startling effect on the viewer. But much of the action was routine in the cat-and-mouse game played out with great gusto in Willowfield. Cam may not have entirely won the audience over with sympathy, but the villain is truly captivating as he chews the scenery with strategic moves that catches the slow-thinking Cam off guard.
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