The Eye (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Eye |
| Original title | The Eye |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | DVD: 93 minutes Blu-ray: 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
David Moreau , Xavier Palud |
| script | Sebastian Gutierrez |
| production |
Don Granger , Paula Wagner |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Jeff Jur |
| cut | Patrick Lussier |
| occupation | |
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The Eye is a year 2008 resulting US remake of a Hong Kong horror film of the Pang brothers named Gin gwai (The Eye) from 2002 was directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud . Sebastian Gutierrez wrote the script .
action
The musician Sydney Wells has been blind since she was five. After a keratoplasty , in which the cornea of a dead person is inserted, she can see again. She is then plagued by visions in which she sees the dead or is in other places, among other things. Her family members think she is mentally unstable. Her attending physician Dr. Paul Faulkner is initially skeptical and sees the reason for their behavior in a postoperative state of shock. Wells suspects a connection between the visions and her new organ and is looking for the donor of the cornea that was inserted into her. With the help of Dr. Faulkners found out that the eyes used to belong to Ana Christina Martinez. Together they drive to Mexico , where they talk to Martinez's mother, who shortly afterwards has a heart attack that she does not survive. Wells sees in her visions that Martinez committed suicide after a major fire - due to allegations against herself that she did not save the many victims.
On the way back to the USA there is a traffic jam at the border. Here she meets a girl who burns in her visions, as well as a tank truck with the number 106 - her nightly visions always began at 1:06 a.m. - and understands that the misfortune of her visions is only about to happen. Even before a fugitive in front of the police drives his car into the tank truck and starts a fire, Sydney can get everyone in the immediate vicinity to leave the danger zone. At the last moment she takes cover behind a car. The pressure wave of the following explosion destroys the window of the car, with numerous small pieces of glass hitting her face. As she is being rolled through the hospital on a stretcher, she can still make out the paramedics above her out of focus. The last scene reveals that she has gone blind again due to the broken glass, but that she is better now.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was "another ghost story adapted from an Asian original", which probably already says everything necessary. The main actress is very attractive, but she looks wooden. The end of the film was stupid and it mocked the previous plot ("It's stupid and insulting and makes a mockery of everything that comes before it").
“US remake of the Asian horror film of the same name (2002), which, despite being closely related to the original, does not achieve its density. In the western version, the horror soon dies with less original effects and at best serves spiritualist interests. In doing so, essential differences between the two cultural areas are revealed indirectly. "
backgrounds
The production of the film was initially planned by Paramount Pictures with Renée Zellweger in the leading role. The project was handed over to Lions Gate Entertainment ; Zellweger was replaced by Alba, who learned to play a violin for six months as part of the preparations .
The film was shot in Albuquerque , downtown Los Angeles and Vancouver . It started in cinemas in the USA on February 1, 2008 and grossed around 26.87 million US dollars there by February 17, 2008 .
Web links
- The Eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Eye at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed March 4, 2008
- ^ The Eye. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Scott Weinberg: Jessica Alba Has an "Eye" for HK Horror Remake on uk.rottentomatoes.com, accessed January 27, 2008
- ↑ Alba Learned Violin for Movie in the IMDb , accessed on January 27, 2008
- ↑ Filming locations for The Eye, accessed January 27, 2008
- ↑ The Eye premiere dates, accessed March 4, 2008
- ↑ Box office results for The Eye, accessed March 4, 2008