My wife and I watched The Incident the other night. I really enjoyed it. My take is that it's about tragedy and how someone reacts to (maybe dwells upon, or dwells within is a better turn of phrase) tragedy whether they're old or young and whether they persevere in the face of that tragedy or succumb to it emotionally. In the case of The Incident whether one thrives or shrivels seems to be based on age.
For a while I really hoped it was a dystopia in the vein of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. e.g. the noise was a machine of some sort splitting off a very bad dimension/possibility and screwing over some version of yourself, so that an individual could enjoy a probable good turn in the timeline that had the technology. Personally, I think that's a creepier take on the whole thing. Confining some version of yourself to hell so that you can enjoy a less painful reality. How many alternate yous would you be willing to banish to hell to be happy? Would you justify it with "it's me, so they'd be happy for the happy me?"
Inventive and well worth watching and I agree with Variety, that it's got a smattering of Borges, enough so that when it tries to explain things at the end, it almost screws up the movie.
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