Topic > 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 get to the fork in the road, instead of going left, we go right. This was no different for Jason Denson, the main character of Dark Matter. However, Jason has the opportunity to experience multiple versions of what his life could have been if he had taken different paths. In this novel, Jason is kidnapped while walking home after visiting his old college roommate. This same college roommate is enjoying a life similar to the one Jason might have had if he had continued to work on his research. After being kidnapped, Jason is drugged and wakes up in a laboratory. He wakes up with 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 continued his research and became a successful physicist who invented a way to travel the multiverse. This Jason traveled the multiverse in search of that perfect life and found it. Unfortunately, that live already had a Jason Denson. So, the only way to take control of that life is to get rid of the other Jason. She does this by sending him back to his time in the multiverse, to experience his success. Most of us think about what if in our lives, but how many people would actually make that change. I don't see any difficulty in adapting this novel into a film. With the use of CGI, it is difficult for me to visualize any part of the book that resists translation. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay To travel the multiverse, Jason developed what is called "The Box". To use The Box, the person inside must take a chemical compound that shuts down part of their brane. After this has happened, the person wakes up to a door that has appeared on one of the walls. Going through that door takes you to more doors. Each door should be a cross-section in time to multiple universes. When I imagine this, I imagine the hallway fight scene in The Matrix Reloaded (2003). In that scene there is an infinite corridor with infinite doors. Each door opens to a different place. When filming the characters leaving The Box, they could do something similar by having an endless hallway with doors. Each door will take them to a different universe at the same time. Shooting this scene would be easy to adapt. Once Jason finds his way home, he soon discovers that he isn't the only Jason to arrive in that universe. Just like our main character, these Jasons believe they have returned to their universe. Each of them has embarked on their own journey to make it their own universe and will do whatever it takes to get their family back. There are many scenes featuring multiple Jasons at the same time. Having multiple copies of the same person in a scene is no longer difficult to achieve. With the use of CGI, filmmakers can have as many as they want in the scene. This also brings 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 corridor with the endless doors. The biggest problem I see when filming this movie 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 as he tries to get home, and when there are multiple Jasons in a scene. "The CGI industry acts like a chain of.