Altered Reality

Altered-Reality
Altered Reality

Synopsis

Life takes a different course for Oliver Cook once again when he happens to meet Jack, the former caretaker of Spring Manor. It is in Spring Manor that he meets the caretaker named Jack who had worked years before and with which he had a close acquaintance. An Alien drug offers an amazing miracle pill to Oliver granting him riches and good health but at the expense of family relations. Everything changes when his daughter goes missing and none of the goods his wealth buys becomes any consolation. In ‘The Altered Reality,’ he sets out to help in the reconstruction of her mystery and at the same end fights with ethical questions and the higher powers. This plot from the heart is concerned with the ideas of forgiveness, family relations, and the choices one makes.

Altered Reality may not be categorized as a ghost narrative but it is the hook that continually drew me back. Jack (Lance Henriksen) always sees Oliver (Charles Agron) doing fine without him knowing anything and I would actually sit through any movie that this veteran actor is featured in. It was interesting that Ed Asner was also listed on the playbill. Technically, he died in 2021 which only meant that this project struggled to get distribution and I am glad it has been pulled from the coffin!

In this movie, Oliver has relational challenges. There was a tragedy some months ago when his little daughter died and instead of grieving for her, he chose to isolate himself in his work and avoid being with his wife. Consequently, this way of living has caused a crack in an already weak bond. His wife believes that he is unfaithful to her!

Having seen The Veil not too long ago (movie review coming soon), I was almost certain that I knew the direction that this film would follow. Here, Oliver seeks to correct the mistakes that he made a short while ago. Though he makes the effort, it is hardly supernatural. It is primarily about his sore love affairs.

Oftentimes, I sit back and start contemplating why Oliver is so fond of Jack’s presence, especially because Oliver often finds himself at his mother’s Spring Manor, which is usually overrun with hardheaded staff. When Jack Ross reveals he’s known the old man’s family for generations, my thoughts raced as to why this is so. The protagonist had said to one of the young men that he has the potential to alter the course of history, which left me a bit puzzled if there was a clean cut between one story arc and the other. At best, I could only speculate.

Alternatively, the conversations point to other uncanny possibilities that could have been further pursued. If this filmmaker focused on the whodunit rather than the melodrama, I would rate this work much higher.

I would only say that I liked the scenes involving Henrikson. For all his age looks in this film, he is the one who anchors it. It is easy to root for a ghost who wants the main character to do better. It’s nice to see a movie in which it is accepted that it didn’t have to be like what the protagonist’s family went through. This film, quite unreasonably, believes that only one timeline should exist. It has become out of fashion to tell stories about multiverses, and it is good that this cartoon did not try hard to explain why this is the case. It is enough to say that every family can be saved if there is a kind ghost in it.

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