Chattanooga FF: Quantum Suicide: The Infinite Possibilities of Going Crazy and Dying

A lone physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality.

REVIEW:

Quantum Suicide involves the possibilities of death by a gun pointed at your head gong off if rigged to a computer system, a particle accelerator and if life or death is totally dependent on the decay of a particular subatomic particle. It’s one of those crazy, not so crazy theories quantum scientists like to devote themselves to.

The movie of it, is theoretically interesting, but in my moviegoing reality, is quite boring to watch. I think I got the gist of the quantum film experience: that the mere observation of a quantum film disparingly effects the enjoyment of the critical mindset. In effect, if you don’t care or are confused by the science you’re going to have a shitty movie going experience, guaranteed. And vice versa. My results ended in the versa side.

Quantum Suicide , the movie, takes the Quantum Suicide theory literally, playing it out in all of its Chekovian dramatic possibilities: if a gun is shown it must go off. Cayman (Andrew Rogerson), the garage scientist is going crazy perfecting the machine that will allow him to execute this idea. His observations just keep on throwing the development off.

Somewhere, there is a death wish that is not counterbalanced by the good, understanding, devoted wife (Kate Totten) and the scientifically inclined cum daughter substitute that lives next door (Kennedy Montano). The observer destroys the experiment and in turn the experiment destroys him. In execution this results in a lot of headaches, writhing on the floor and blacking out followed by simultaneous mechanical sparks and blinking lights.

There seems to be a lot of real quantum theory algorithms. A good sixty percent of the film is devoted to explaining and re-explaining this mumbo jumbo, slowing down the drama to a crawl. The nerds will love it, everyone else will experience constant hair pulling.