Option: The Sci-Fi Movie

You picked the movie Beyond the Veil: Interdimensional Soldiers. It turned out to be a very strange film. It followed an invasion of earth from across “the veil of realities” by a sci-fi army. A retired green beret and his wife, who he met in the service, are **** by plot contrivance to take up arms to save this reality.

But, the army of the Veil included alternate versions of all the main characters. You guess near the start that the movie will end with the main cast in direct one on one combat with their dopllegangers. Suffice to say, you’re correct.

Like many sci-fi movies nowadays, it rested its themes heavily on the many-worlds hypothesis. Arguing that every single different choice split the timeline up. The alternate version of the main character acts as a reflection of choices he could have made. The veil version never left the army and never started a family.

At the end of the story, earth repelled the invasion from across the alternate reality. But, one of the main squad, who regretted a choice to kill someone important to her in the past, fled back with the invaders across the dimensional divide. Meanwhile, the hero and his wife were left all the more confident in their choice to leave the system, having seen what they would have become if they hadn’t decided their happiness mattered more.

Like with a lot of sci-fi films, you found yourself deep in thought once the credits rolled. Were there other versions of you? What would they think of the choices you’d made in your life?