To that end, I’ve done both for you, I don’t know how much sense I’ve made out of both approaches. And the second thing, which isn’t even nearly as obvious, is to watch the fade to blacks. It’s like he’s telling us, watch the magician’s left hand… constantly. So, at a hight level Byrkit is saying watch Em closely. How many frames, how the rules work, how the audio should ring out. You wouldn’t believe the amount of debate going into those cuts to black, by the way. One way is to simply follow Em from the first shot to the last shot… The other way to watch it is to use the cuts to black as a signal of something much more complicated unfolding. That said, there are two ways to watch the film. “We’ve learned to try to not spoil an audience member’s personal interpretation of what’s happening. He gave a ton more details that I’ve pulled out of this response, and will share when I post my interview with my new best friend Jimmy, I mean James Ward Byrkit, in full. His response helped in that it gave me options, whether or not it will help by the end I’ll leave to your discretion. So how does one go about tracking all of these threads swirling around in circles within this movie? I was so concerned about how to make sense of this movie and so perplexed how to understand what was going on here that I asked the writer and director of this movie James Ward Byrkit (who I’ve taken to calling Jimmy in my head, just because we are tight like that… in my head anyway.) My actual question was posed more specifically as such: And by then, you are too far down the rabbit hole to really make sense of everything (and by everything, I mean EVERYTHING) happening around you. It’s only later on that you realize just how far down the path you have already gone. When Amir and Hugh walk out the door and then walk back in something just happened, but it isn’t even called out. The reason the movie is complex is because as the movie progresses, it exponentially ramps up the variables going on underneath the covers of this movie. The only movie more complicated would be Primer… and nothing will ever become more complicated than that particular head-job. I would go so far as to say that this is the second most complex movie ever constructed. But its the unassumingness that throws you off kilter, hits you with a surprise right hook. And then you begin to realize something’s rotten in Denmark.

Coherence is an unassuming movie… at first.

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