We’ve all heard of the multiverse theory, yes? If you’ve seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, or Everything Everywhere All at Once then you’ve been exposed to it even if only superficially. They postulated that there were many, many different universes all playing out different versions of realities formed by both sides of various decisions being enacted in new parallel universes. Some films have tried to make things easier on the viewer by limiting events to just the two universes. Sliding Doors for instance has a central event from which two different storylines play out.
And, in that vein, we come to Dimension Slip. While there is no sliding door moment, what we have two takes on the same thing. The thing in this case is a woman. In one reality she is Kate and in the other she is Hannah. In both realities she is played by Sophie Craig. We start with one version (Hair tied back, white sweater with black pattern) in the garden on a swing. A few swings back and forth and we cut to the other version (Hair loose and plain purple pullover) cutting something up to make sandwiches.
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I Don’t Know Who You Are
We learn that the swing version is Kate, so it must be Hannah struggling to keep control of a meeting. The other members of the team are chatting to each other, ignoring Hannah, checking their phones, and rolling in late. Flick back to Kate and she is working in what seems to be the world’s smallest call centre. A colleague rolls in late and is chewed out by the supervisor and sent home after being told that lateness is a sign of disrespect. Kate has a particularly trying phone call and decides to quit leaving the authoritarian supervisor with only one worker left.
Both versions go to visit their friend/therapist Serena (Kierath Jandoo) and chat about the fact that they seem to be seeing through their other self’s eyes. Later on we see Kate pass out and fall to the floor. When she comes to she has swapped places with Hannah. Unfortunately the first person she bumps into is someone who knows Hannah really well…her brother Jack (Christian Blundell). From now on we seem to spend a lot of time with Kate in Hannah’s world. But Kate isn’t Hannah.
I’m Your Brother…Jack
It turns out that while Kate might not know her way around a pharmaceutical company like Hannah, she can deal with people. She whips the team into shape using the same attitude that the call centre harridan showed, She also finds out that her boss is a letch and her brother isn’t as fraternal as he should be. But there is a strange dimension hopper, Nickolei (Andrew Norman) who tells Kate what she needs to do to get back to her own dimension. Unfortunately I can’t say much more for fear of spoiling everything!
I did like the subtle way that you were reminded that Kate wasn’t in her own dimension: people saying “Thank Gaia”, the fact that the carnations were blue, and, at one point, Kate is sent to Ave Henge in Wessex which ceased to be around 886. I’ll just say that the way that Kate resolves things in Hannah’s world is very well done. I definitely did not see the ending! The original title was How to Solve Your Own Murder and I can see why they changed that. Dimension Slip gets a digital release on 28th April 2025 courtesy of Miracle Media.
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