Released Year: 2000
Directed by Tarsem Singh
Casted by:
Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane
Vincent D'Onofrio as Carl Rudolph Stargher
Vince Vaughn as Peter Novak
Story:
L² Comment:
Directed by Tarsem Singh
Casted by:
Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane
Vincent D'Onofrio as Carl Rudolph Stargher
Vince Vaughn as Peter Novak
Story:
Catherine is an expert on the experimental treatment for coma patients. The lab eventually make up a virtual reality device that allows Catherine to enter into the minds of her patients and attempt to coax them into consciousness.
Carl is a crazy serial killer who killed all his victims by drowning them and breach the color off them while making them into dolls. Currently he caught a new victim and has set a remote to drown her in a tank, but Carl falls into a coma before the FBI agent Peter caught him. They send Carl to the lab to find out where he kept his victim.
Catherine enters Carl mind and found out that there are 2 parts of Carl inside. The innocent part is Carl childhood who were beaten and abuse by his father while the evil part is the one who do all the serial killing. Catherine was captured inside Carl's mind and Peter went in to rescue her. Inside there, they fought with evil Carl and managed to discover where he kept the last victim. Later on both of them exit Carl's mind. Peter went to save the last victim from tank while Catherine enters Carl mind again.
This time, Catherine do the reverse and lead Carl into her mind with full of hope. She guided Carl innocent part and killed off the evil part. This experiment was a success. Catherine then has used this reverse treatment to save all her coma patients.
L² Scored: 5.5/10 Carl is a crazy serial killer who killed all his victims by drowning them and breach the color off them while making them into dolls. Currently he caught a new victim and has set a remote to drown her in a tank, but Carl falls into a coma before the FBI agent Peter caught him. They send Carl to the lab to find out where he kept his victim.
Catherine enters Carl mind and found out that there are 2 parts of Carl inside. The innocent part is Carl childhood who were beaten and abuse by his father while the evil part is the one who do all the serial killing. Catherine was captured inside Carl's mind and Peter went in to rescue her. Inside there, they fought with evil Carl and managed to discover where he kept the last victim. Later on both of them exit Carl's mind. Peter went to save the last victim from tank while Catherine enters Carl mind again.
This time, Catherine do the reverse and lead Carl into her mind with full of hope. She guided Carl innocent part and killed off the evil part. This experiment was a success. Catherine then has used this reverse treatment to save all her coma patients.
L² Comment:
The story is kinda new and different. But the whole story line is a bit dull and yet not very pulling out the emotion part.
Cerita pelik. Considered groundbreaking effects at that point in time.
ReplyDeleteya... a bit weird but come on, its a movie :)i think matrix is roughly around tat period too, right?
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