Fragile (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fragile |
| Original title | Frágiles |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jaume Balagueró |
| script | Jaume Balagueró Jordi Galcerán |
| production |
Julio Fernández Joan Ginard |
| music | Roque Baños |
| camera | Xavi Giménez |
| cut | Jaume Martí |
| occupation | |
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Fragile (Original: Frágiles ), also known as Mercy Falls , is a Spanish horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró in 2005.
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Amy Nicholls is said to be working as a night nurse at Mercy Falls Hospital on the Isle of Wight after a traumatic experience . The dilapidated hospital is about to be closed and is only still in operation because of overload after a train accident. Amy's colleague Helen Perez introduces her to the last remaining patients (eight children). The orphan Maggie, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, is particularly mysterious . The girl speaks of a Charlotte, also called “the mechanical girl”, who is said to haunt the second floor, which has been abandoned since 1959.
One day remains Amy with the young patients Simon, a double mysteriously thigh - fracture suffered, stuck in the elevator. Caretaker Roy can't help her. Shortly thereafter, Amy learns from Maggie that her predecessor Susan, with whom she was friends, quit out of fear. When Amy tries to visit Susan at home, she learns that the nurse has just been killed in a traffic accident.
After the children in the hospital watch a 1959 Sleeping Beauty cartoon , Maggie talks to Amy about a kiss for love. During the conversation, Amy suddenly sees something breathing under the covers in an empty bed and panics. The ward doctor tries to calm her down by persuading her that her trauma can trigger such hallucinations .
Later, the young nurse talks to two old nurses about connections to the afterlife . They tell her that Susan was spiritually gifted and probably suspected that something was in this hospital that this world does not want or cannot leave. They think there are beings who always want to stay close to what they love. These could be seen by people who are close to their own death. In addition, she receives a butterfly picture from an autistic boy.
When Roy tries to wrap up the cubes that Maggie uses to communicate with Charlotte, the cubes tell him to "don't touch" and he is apparently killed by the mechanical girl.
Amy desperately wants to reveal the secret of Charlotte and dares to go to the second floor. There, in a room decorated with butterflies, she finds an old photo of a girl in a wheelchair and a nurse, as well as a film that shows this girl being treated for osteogenesis imperfecta . Amy tells the ward doctor Robert that she saw the "mechanical girl" and persuades him to look for this Charlotte in the files. Even if he is not entirely convinced of it, he orders the immediate escape.
When Amy gets help, she learns from the old nurse that the "glass girl" was actually on the mend back then, but then, strangely enough, suffered a relapse. Shortly thereafter, it was discovered that his then personal nurse had broken the girl's bones and murdered the child. Then the nurse threw herself into the elevator shaft with the girl's frame. She was so obsessed with the child that she just couldn't bear to be separated from her.
Meanwhile Robert finds a file from which it emerges that the girl's name was Mandy. Charlotte was the name of the nurse.
While the others are fleeing, Maggie has gone upstairs again to get her lost blanket. Amy runs after her to save her from Charlotte's ghost, but Maggie dies in her arms. Amy herself escapes death at the last moment - through a love kiss from Maggie. After Amy speaks with Robert and the ex-sisters, an old man in the hospital is pushed past Amy's room by a doctor. You look through his eyes and learn that Maggie is sitting on the bed with this one. You can hear the words of the former sisters again.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films writes that the work is "an atmospherically dense horror film that is increasingly lost in arbitrariness and genre clichés" . Furthermore, “the care in the cinematic craft, the courage to end up uncomfortable, the prominent cast [...] and above all the solid child actors” are praised.
Awards
Web links
- Fragile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fragile in the Lexicon of International Films