Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tilda Swinton | ... | Joyce | |
Tom McCamus | ... | George Barber | |
Sean McCann | ... | Inspector Berkley | |
Gabriel Gascon | ... | Kleber / Doctor | |
Rick Miller | ... | Williams | |
Griffith Brewer | ... | Caretaker | |
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Daniel Brooks | ... | Bob |
Steve Adams | ... | First Interviewer | |
Russell Yuen | ... | Police Officer | |
Mariah Inger | ... | Johnson | |
Laurent Imbault | ... | Darkroom Technician | |
Lisa Bronwyn Moore | ... | Second Interviewer | |
Eric Hoziel | ... | Axxon Security | |
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Simon Lee | ... | No-Nose Man |
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Clément Cormier | ... | Housekeeper |
George and Joyce lead parallel lives in alternate worlds. In each of those lives, George embarks on a relationship with Joyce, sometimes more successfully than others. George also becomes increasingly aware of his alternate lives, not only of Joyce in each of them, but what he carries of himself between each of those lives. In one of those lives, he is the most recent homicide victim in a rash of B&E's. In his case, he is the first victim where nothing of monetary value has been stolen, but only his brain removed from his skull and taken from the crime scene. The lead police investigators, Inspector Berkley and Detective Williams, although sometimes at odds with each other, eventually come to the conclusion that the murder has something to do with brain research, and that George may have been targeted rather than a random victim. In addition to Berkley and Williams' investigation and discovering the identity of the murderer, the alternate question becomes how this situation fits in ... Written by Huggo
You will know in the first ten minutes if this film is for you or not. Possible Worlds explores themes of the mind in a science-fiction setting. A man seems all knowing at the start of the film, and impresses his interviewers by quickly calculating the solution to several complex problems posed to him, all without a calculator. Later we find out he is not super intelligent, but retains memories from all his other selves in parallel universes. I suppose at least one of his alternate selves must have gone through the interview already, so he just pulls on that memory.
He also explores a relationship with the same woman, who is strikingly different in each of the parallel worlds. In one, she is loving and compassionate, in another scattered and distant. The story is never showy, gimmicky, or clichéd, unlike what we have come to expect from Hollywood.
Visually, there are not many films better than this. Each scene is so beautiful it's almost as though every inch of the scene was meticulously composed by hand. Some scenes lingered without dialogue, and I wanted them to stay longer just so I could appreciate the scene more. The film leaves a definite mood long after the credits end.