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Essay / Book Review Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Most of us go through life wondering how different our lives would be if we had chosen a different path. When we came to this fork in the road, instead of going left, we went right. It was no different for Jason Denson, the main character of Dark Matter. However, Jason has the opportunity to experience several versions of what his life could have been if he had taken different paths. In this novel, Jason is kidnapped on his way home from visiting his old college roommate. This same college roommate enjoys a life similar to the one Jason could have had if he had continued working on his research. After being kidnapped, Jason is drugged and wakes up in a laboratory. He wakes up to people who know him, but he has no idea who they are. Later in the novel, we learn that the kidnapper was a different version of himself. Jason Denson, you continued his research and became a successful physicist who invented a way to travel the multiverse. This Jason traveled the multiverse looking for that perfect life and found it. Unfortunately, this live already had a Jason Denson. So the only way to get this life back is to get rid of this other Jason. He does this by sending him back to his time in the multiverse, to experience his success. Most of us think about possibilities in our lives, but how many people would actually make that change. I don't see any difficulty in adapting this novel to the cinema. With the use of CGI, it is difficult for me to visualize any part of the book that would stand up to translation. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”?Get Original Essay To travel across the multiverse, Jason developed something called “The Box”. To use The Box, the person inside must take a chemical compound that cuts part of their brane. After that, the person wakes up to a door appearing on one of the walls. Going through this door takes you to other doors. Each gate is meant to be a cross-section through time of multiple universes. When I imagine this, I imagine the hallway fight scene in The Matrix Reloaded (2003). In this scene, it's an endless hallway with endless doors. Each door opening to a different location. When filming the characters leaving The Box, they could do something similar by creating an endless hallway with doors. Each door will take them to a different universe at the same time. Filming this scene would be easy to adapt. Once Jason finds his way home, he quickly learns that he is not the only Jason to arrive in this universe. Just like our main character, these Jasons believe they have returned to their universe. Each of them has traveled their own path to make this their world, and will do whatever it takes to get their family back. There are many scenes where multiple Jasons are present at the same time. Having the same person in a scene multiple times is no longer difficult to achieve. With the use of CGI, filmmakers can have as much as they want in the scene. This also takes me back to The Matrix Reloaded (2003). In this film, Neo is seen fighting clone after clone of Agent Smith. This can be seen during the fight scene in the hallway with the infinite doors. The biggest problem I see while filming this film is the cost of using CGI. Much of this film will have to be computer generated to show the different universes the main character travels through trying to get home and where there are multiple Jasons.