Nick Garcia

In today's generation, we see Sci-fi movies that talk about enhancing our brain's function every day. Moving past our general brain compacity has been a dream for decades. Scientists have been fascinated with this concept and directors have not fallen short of taking this fantasy and making it seem like a reality with their films. Otherlife touches on aspects we all wish we had; more time. More time to spend with family, take vacations and enjoy all that earth has to offer. To describe the plot without providing spoilers, Ren Amari is a masterful computer programmer who is set on a mission of reversing her brother's brain-dead condition. The technology she has developed is attempting to do this however she encounters issues along her journey and needs to over overcome these obstacles. Throughout the film, the storyline acts in the vicissitudinous form going back and forth from storyline to storyline eventually conjoining in the end. The film utilizes low amounts of variated scenery suggesting it may be a lower budget film. In some regard, the technology almost seems too unrealistic for trying to be portrayed as a closer future film. The movie does a poor job of telling the audience how the brain knows how to read the code. The eyedrops I also do not quite understand for administering the programming as this does not have a direct uplink or attachment to the brain. The audience is left to make inferences that are almost out of the frame of this film. I can appreciate the lighting in the film as it is mainly dark which represents and plays into the slippery slope of using something that alters reality can be. It tends to tetter on the edge of remain light and pure and darkness if used abusively. The acting has moments where it is not as compelling as others. The business partner'ss angry moments don't strike me as real and seem acted at times. Overall, this movie presents a unique idea of brain enhancement and is something I would recommend to others interested in science.