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ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA, England, July 30 (Reuters) - In sport nearly everyone loves a good David and Goliath story and the place to be for #FreeFireBattleground such a battle at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games is the lawn bowls competition.

Of the 19 sports being contested at this multi-sport event none better embodies the spirit of the Commonwealth Games motto of 'The Friendly Games' nor connects the quadrennial showcase to a more glorious and relevant past than lawn bowls.

At the other end, Norfolk Island, once a British penal colony and home to descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers, tried to reach the medal podium as they did at the Gold Coast 2018 Games when they beat Canada to win the men's triples bronze.

Inexplicable events ensue while the ensemble of characters scramble to restore the power. Nothing is as it had seemed. Some start to doubt where they are, others are more concerned with who they are. This isn't a movie about longtime pals' small talk. It's a tale about them coming face-to-face with the terrifying truth of their reality.

Coherence will keep you guessing along with the actors, elicit audible gasps and make you feel a bit like a sci-fi spy. Hours after the credits roll, you might well experience chills as previously overlooked clues and #FreeFireElitePass nuances slowly wash over you.

At one end of Victoria Park's impeccably manicured bowling greens, rated among the best in Britain, the Falkland Islands, whose 3,000 inhabitants could fit into one of the venue's temporary stands, beat India, with a population of 1.3 billion.

I've recently been binge-watching low-budget sci-fi movies because I have found that what these films lack in theatrics, they overcompensate for #CricketBoxLeagueInFreeFire in story. Shoutout to Operation Avalanche (2016), Another Earth (2011) and #FreeFireBattleground Primer (2004).

While the Norfolk Island team is partly made up of the descendents of mutineers, Niue, a small coral island in the South Pacific with just 1,600 residents, has the country's Premier Dalton Tagelagi and his 14-year-old son Tukala.

The next hour or so overflows with plot twists that could rival those of 2010's Shutter Island. The film also expertly alludes to scientific -- and rather philosophical -- concepts that have probably crossed the mind of the late Stephen Hawking. 

But Coherence elegantly tells the story of a group of friends grappling with actuality, navigating the frightening turns that reality can take -- without the help of CGI, from only one location and with just the sounds of the actors' voices.

Interstellar may have offered the striking image of a giant, iconic wave that nearly wipes out the main characters to the tune of Hans Zimmer. The Martian likely stole your heart with its stunning portrayal of an arid Mars amid a blanket of fog. And Arrival might've been the first time you cried over a shadowy alien doing some inky-looking sign language.

The initial premise of Coherence is fairly simple. A few friends meet up for a dinner party the same night a mysterious comet is scheduled to fly overhead. It begins as many indie movies do, with a troubled love story, tension between exes and witty banter. 

If I share any more, I'd be risking massive spoilers about the shocking revelations uncovered during the film. I can assure you, though, that the onscreen confusion is potent enough to force you to question your own sanity. 

Director James Ward Byrkit even decided to forgo a script for the quietly experimental film. "Each day, instead of getting a script, the actors would get a page of notes for their individual character, whether it was a backstory or information about their motivations," he told IndieWire.

Because the actors were left in the dark about how the story unfolds, any stress and perplexity in their performances is authentic. The film's chaotic disarray was actually happening during the movie's filming.

Perhaps I can sell you with the fact that Coherence, which occasionally verges on horror, was made with a scarce budget of just $50,000 and shot over a mere five days. For context, Alfonso Cuarón's 2013 film, Gravity, was made with $100 million.

Coherence ties together the social, personal and existential consequences that would arise from a complex theory of space and time with a heart-thumping mystery. Speckled with red herrings, easter eggs and a few ambiguities, Coherence is arguably one of the most mind-bending sci-fi films I have ever seen. 

Stop scrolling on whatever streaming service you've been staring at, pop onto Prime Video and watch 2013's low-budget sci-fi flick Coherence ASAP -- it's free for subscribers, right now. I know. I just watched it… for the fourth time.