Storyline
OXV: THE MANUAL (original title) is being billed as the world's first Scientific-Philosophical romance. Boy meets girl in a not-quite-here, not-quite-now world where one simple discovery has forever changed all human interaction. The film could perhaps best be described as a combination of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', '(500) Days of Summer' and 'Primer'.
The above IMDB storyline does not do the film justice. It opens in a school in the English countryside for students who are not just gifted, but prodigies. The school's motto is "Knowledge Determines Destiny". The students are not classified by IQ but by their frequency. 10 year old Zak is the lowest frequency in the school, a minus 7. Marie, whom Zak adores, is the highest frequency in the school. Unfortunately the higher the frequency, the lower the empathy. Marie is a very cold, emotionless child.
Zak has gifts that the metrics of the school are incapable of measuring. Later, as young adults, Zak and his friend Theo, with some knowledge gleaned from Theo's father, discover what could be called the unified field theory of consciousness. This has disturbing consequences for a blacker agency of the government.
The plot touches on so many topics that this forum deals with that it almost seems written by Thor's Pantheum, and maybe it was. The film is as entertaining as it is thought provoking. Its now one of my favorites. I think I'll watch it again tonight... and buy some Mozart. You'll "get" that remark after you see the movie :)
Here's a snip from a review:
Frequencies is a small, British film with a very low budget - and it feels like it doesn't need to cost a cent more than it does. Everything that needs to be in the movie is here. It's a romance and a philosophical experiment, and it's also a science fiction film of the best kind: one that favors ideas over special effects. Fisher creates a fully-realized new world in Frequencies, and he does it with words and concepts instead of computer graphics and creatures. That is Frequencies' biggest triumph, and one that the summer tentpoles currently dominating the box office could learn from.
_http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/28/frequencies-review/
You can search for reviews of this film. There are many and they all have essentially the same flavor. It seems to be a hit. I am looking forward to any future film projects from Darren Paul Fisher.

