Advantages: Clever, thrilling in places, amazing camera work Disadvantages: Confusing, almost pretentious
It seems that these days everyone is trying to make a film that has an amazing twist at the end, so we all sit in awe and think "Wow, I never saw that coming" to ourselves. In this case, I was left thinking "What the hell just happened?" to the point where I honestly had to go and look the film up on the Internet and see what other people were saying about it.
The plot is fairly simple. Ewan McGregor plays a psychiatrist standing in for a colleague. ... ...suicide on his 21st Birthday - a few days away. Ewans current girlfriend is a former suicidal patient, so he takes the threat fairly seriously. Unfotunately, he can't get Henry taken into protective custody, so instead spends the next few days digging around and trying to find out as much as he can. It's here that he slowly gets drawn into the world of Henrys paranoid delusions, and Ewan begins to lose his own grip on reality.
I must admit, the ...
Echelon17 31.07.2006
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