Double Vision - Five Hells to Immortality
| Movie | |
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| German title | Double Vision - Five Hells to Immortality |
| Original title | 雙瞳 |
| Country of production | Taiwan |
| original language | Mandarin , Hokkien , English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Chen Kuo-fu |
| script |
Su Chao-bin , Chen Kuo-fu |
| production | Chen Kuo-fu, Huang Chih-ming , Nan Fang Films , Columbia Pictures Asia |
| music | Lee Sin-yun |
| camera | Arthur Wong |
| cut | Wei De-sheng , Chen Kuo-fu |
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Double Vision - Five Hells to Immortality ( Chinese 雙瞳 / 双瞳 , Pinyin Shuāng Tóng ) is a 2002 Taiwanese thriller from director Chen Kuo-fu . The film is about an FBI agent who deals with a troubled Taiwanese Police officers work together to apprehend a serial killer who installs a mysterious black mold in the brains of his victims. The film was shown at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category . The title refers to the phenomenon of "double pupils " from Chinese mythology . For example, Cang Jie is said to have had one (see illustration).
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Police officer Huang Huo-tu has had a nervous breakdown because his life is falling apart. He was transferred because he testified against corruption in his unit and has been working as a "Foreign Affairs Officer" ever since. His young daughter is suffering from the aftermath of a hostage situation in which she was caught in the crossfire of the police. In addition, his colleagues turned away from him and his wife Ching-fang tried to file for divorce.
Suddenly, a series of bizarre deaths in Taipei rock the local investigators and the American FBI agent Kevin Richter is called in to solve the murder cases. Although he is the top expert on serial killers, he too can not explain the apparently supernatural circumstances of the murders. For example, a businessman freezes to death in his office during a heatwave and the mistress of a prominent official calls the fire department and is found burned, but with no evidence of a fire in her home.
Richter teams up with Huang, who, unlike Richter, has no difficulty in believing in something supernatural. On this basis, Huang can convince Richter to research a local cult, and they find increasing evidence that demonic forces may be at work.
Reviews
“Taiwan's most expensive film of all time to date is an extremely elegantly staged mystery thriller [...]. Director Chen Kuo-Fu plays with the audience's expectations and provides a splatter orgy right in the middle, which steers the film in a very exciting direction in the second half. [...] "
“The dense thriller does not put crime in the foreground, but rather the question of whether the protagonist can regain control of his life and stop his family from falling apart. In this way, the genre is used to reflect on personal suffering and overcoming it. "
Awards
Golden Horse Film Festival 2002
- Golden Horse in the Best Supporting Actor category for David Morse
- Nomination in the “Best Sound Effects ” category for Ma-Chi Du and Paul Pirola
- Nomination in the “Best Visual Effects ” category for Wick Wang and Peter Webb
- Hong Kong Film Award in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for René Liu
- Nomination in the “Best Actor” category for Tony Leung Ka-Fai
- Nomination in the category “Best Art Direction ” for Timmy Yip
- Nomination in the category “Best Cinematography” for Arthur Wong
- Nomination in the “Best Film Editing” category for Ze Ming Wen
- Nomination in the "Best Screenplay" category for Chao-Bin Su and Kuo-fu Chen
- Nomination in the category “Best Visual Effects” for Peter Webb
Web links
- Double Vision - Five dens to immortality in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Double vision in the lexicon of international film
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - Unrated by Double Vision - Five Hells to Immortality at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Double vision . Festival de Cannes (English); Retrieved November 21, 2009
- ↑ Double Vision - criticism ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
