MEMORIES OF REALITYJacob is quickly digressing into a state of insanity as Davis and Michael are confronted with a new issue- global disease, which only makes matters worse. In a race against the clock, they see the world fade around them, and letters and envelopes seem to be all that’s left for mankind.
Mystery/Drama - June 19, 2021 IMDB / Watch on Prime Video Presented by JNZ Studios in association with Deluxe Burger Studios and Bedste Productions |
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Release dates and awards
USA (limited) - June 19, 2021
USA (Prime Video) - August 25, 2021
UK (Prime Video) - August 25, 2021
USA (Prime Video) - August 25, 2021
UK (Prime Video) - August 25, 2021
Critic Reviews
"Memories of Reality: 3.5 Stars" by Adrian Perez, Lonely Wolf Film Festival [Contains Spoilers]
"A lightning strike sends Jacob (Zane Zakroff) into a parallel universe, a hellscape of his neurotic defence's making, one where he can't see or communicate with his two best friends who are in the same room as him(!). What starts as a daydream coma where the only way Michael (Zach Fox) and Davis (Ernie Colquette) can get through to him is through letters and post-stick notes, which leads him to piece together his reality to the point it's so overwhelming that he attempts suicide; and if this wasn't stressful enough, this friendship trio gets hit with a global pandemic disease they must try to survive at all costs. If you think this thickens the plot, wait until the film takes a bonkers turn when the real version of Jacob's imaginary ally in the form of girlfriend Ava (Zola Feasel) during his hallucinatory coma, is the cure thief and author behind the world's impending doom. Behind Memories of Reality's science fiction facade lies a coming-of-age drama about boy-meets-girl drifts away from best friends; this is an exquisite metaphorical odyssey into the tense coexistence between relationships and friendships, where theoretically one can longitudinally rule out the other. This is ultimately Ava's vendetta story. John Christensen and Nolan Lawlor rely on an infectiously charismatic predominantly-emerging cast, a witty convoluted script, and hand-held realism to tell their far-fetched fantastical tale. For a student film production, this is a formidable entry; Christensen and Lawlor's ambitious feature-length scale believes in the ninety-minute magic rule and offers these co-directors a big canvas to hone their depiction of Jacob's mental subjectivity and manoeuvre an ensemble cast and multi-location cinematic spectacle. Though imperfect, screaming for a sharper context in less unambiguous verisimilitude, narrative silence, and more subtextual visual storytelling, Memories of Reality proves compelling and ambitious enough as we work our way in deciphering its eccentric world. Complex but uneven, exhilarating but perplexing—an outré film with a big personality."
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"A lightning strike sends Jacob (Zane Zakroff) into a parallel universe, a hellscape of his neurotic defence's making, one where he can't see or communicate with his two best friends who are in the same room as him(!). What starts as a daydream coma where the only way Michael (Zach Fox) and Davis (Ernie Colquette) can get through to him is through letters and post-stick notes, which leads him to piece together his reality to the point it's so overwhelming that he attempts suicide; and if this wasn't stressful enough, this friendship trio gets hit with a global pandemic disease they must try to survive at all costs. If you think this thickens the plot, wait until the film takes a bonkers turn when the real version of Jacob's imaginary ally in the form of girlfriend Ava (Zola Feasel) during his hallucinatory coma, is the cure thief and author behind the world's impending doom. Behind Memories of Reality's science fiction facade lies a coming-of-age drama about boy-meets-girl drifts away from best friends; this is an exquisite metaphorical odyssey into the tense coexistence between relationships and friendships, where theoretically one can longitudinally rule out the other. This is ultimately Ava's vendetta story. John Christensen and Nolan Lawlor rely on an infectiously charismatic predominantly-emerging cast, a witty convoluted script, and hand-held realism to tell their far-fetched fantastical tale. For a student film production, this is a formidable entry; Christensen and Lawlor's ambitious feature-length scale believes in the ninety-minute magic rule and offers these co-directors a big canvas to hone their depiction of Jacob's mental subjectivity and manoeuvre an ensemble cast and multi-location cinematic spectacle. Though imperfect, screaming for a sharper context in less unambiguous verisimilitude, narrative silence, and more subtextual visual storytelling, Memories of Reality proves compelling and ambitious enough as we work our way in deciphering its eccentric world. Complex but uneven, exhilarating but perplexing—an outré film with a big personality."
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