Frequencies

Sort of a TiMER, Brazil - ish coming of age story that probably is intended to get the viewer to think about social stereotypes and the idea that our intelligence is pre-determined. In this context, every person is tested at some point in their pre-adolescent years and their individual frequency is revealed to them. Our protagonists in this case are a high frequency (the highest) girl and a low frequency boy, who bump in to each other. In this world, such a massive difference in frequencies coming into physical proximity result in some sort natural disaster (explosion, lightning strike, birds falling out of the air, car crash, etc.). The bigger the difference in frequency, the quicker the disaster and in this case disaster happens after 60 seconds of proximity. So our potential lovers are unable to be together. But we follow them through the next 20 years, with occasional attempts to meet, until our low frequency finds a way to circumvent the problem. Follow this with strange conspiracy theory, novel aural science, and revisionist interpretation of historical art. Overall, this was strange enough to keep me watching just to find out how everything resolved. And might be fun to discuss the ideas of intelligence as a nature v. nurture after watching with your philosophical friends. But it just wasn't excellent.
3 stars (out of 5)