The I Inside - In the eye of death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The I Inside - In the eye of death |
| Original title | The I Inside |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland Suso Richter |
| script |
Michael Cooney , Timothy Scott Bogart |
| production |
Rudy Cohen , Mark Damon |
| music | Nicholas Pike |
| camera | Martin Langer |
| cut |
Chris Blunden , Jonathan Rudd |
| occupation | |
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The I Inside (Original title: The I Inside ) is an American - British thriller from 2004 . Directed by Roland Suso Richter , the script was written by Michael Cooney and Timothy Scott Bogart based on the play Point of Death (Eng. Title: Hell does not wait ) by Michael Cooney.
action
Simon Cable (Ryan Phillippe) wakes up from a coma in the hospital , not remembering the circumstances that brought him here. He remembers fragmentarily the admission to the emergency room and the start of the resuscitation at 8:00 p.m. The doctor (Stephen Rea) confronts him with the information that it has not been one night but two years since his resuscitation and the onset of his amnesia. Simon thinks the current year is 2000, the doctor says the current year is 2002 and introduces him to his wife Anna (Piper Perabo), whom Simon cannot remember.
Cable learns step by step that he is married and has a mistress - Clair (Sarah Polley); and that his older brother Peter was recently killed. Cable suffers from the recurring vision of a masked stranger trying to kill him. After a panic attack , the attending doctor lets him play the video from the surveillance camera, on which the alleged assassin is definitely not visible.
Cable is accused in his visions of killing his brother Peter, whom he pushes out of the attic window of their house. After that, he actually tries to get rid of the brother's body. He dumps the body in a car on the edge of a cliff and pushes the car in the direction of the abyss. However, after being disturbed, Cable interrupts the attempt to crash the car with the corpse over the cliff edge.
Increasing disorientation makes him panic more and more, because the time surrounding him suddenly changes back and forth between the year 2000 and the year 2002. He recognizes his future wife Anna in a nurse, who puts him under pressure with a sound recording of his brother's statement "Simon killed me!" Clair appears and appeals to their mutual love.
In another vision in 2000 he emotionally kills a patient with scissors . Even in the vision he regrets what he did. Shortly afterwards, he experiences that the man lives in 2002 and is lying in his hospital bed. However, the sick man dies minutes later due to a medical cause - Cable links this death to the culpable killing of his brother in his vision.
In another, more complex vision, Simon visits his lover Clair. They confess their love to each other and it becomes clear that Clair is actually Peter's fiancée. Peter discovers the relationship between Simon and Clair; there is an argument - Clair flees the house and drives away. The dispute between the brothers escalates and in the course of it Simon pushes his older brother Peter, this time by mistake, out of the attic window. Desperate and remorseful, Simon tries to save his seriously injured brother - he drives his car to a junction from which one of the roads leads in the direction of the cliff shown above. But Cable now chooses the route to the hospital instead. It starts to rain and the journey with the injured brother in the passenger seat at night and in the rain ends in a head-on collision with another vehicle.
In the last vision, Simon Cable visits his brother Peter in the Cables family home. Peter forgives Simon his misconduct and tells him that he and Simon are dead - a traffic accident in which Clair was also killed. The story dissolves in various flashbacks and Simon realizes the real connections. However, Simon thought that he could have changed the past and is now asking for another chance to do so. Peter tells him to accept the inevitable. "How many chances do you think you still deserve?" The scene changes back to the emergency room. In the bird's eye view - which is known to be often referenced as the perspective of the moment of death - he sees the doctors reanimate him and then ultimately stop attempting to resuscitate him. At the end, the time of death is displayed. Twenty-eight: 20:02, also readable as: 2002. But Simon seems to have decided not to let go. He wakes up from his coma like at the beginning of the film and it can be assumed that the events / visions shown in the film will now be repeated.
interpretation
The story reveals itself as the protagonist's feelings in the approaching death, the moment in which he confesses his deeds and his guilt and ultimately has to accept them.
dramaturgy
The film's complex and stringent narrative strategy was positively highlighted by the critics. Richter staged the “Brain Twister” in a cool, modern and elegant tonality, the suspense sequences of which build up tension in short, serially assembled arcs and suddenly discharge it. The protagonist, an accident patient, finds himself in a situation in which he is less and less able to distinguish between existence and appearance, delusion and truth. Alternation between subjective and objective cameras, series-used close-ups that prevent orientation in space, and the increasing displacement of the "outside" that provides orientation in favor of cell-like spaces, as well as fast cutting speed, e.g. B. the caregivers suddenly appear and then disappear again, dramaturgically adequately reflects the vain search for orientation of the protagonist. The model for this type of film action and staging was the film The Sixth Sense from 1999.
music
After a first attempt with the young band musician Adam F., who had to be given up, Nicholas Pike wrote the film music. With traditional musical suspense riffs, but without symphonic orchestration, Pike created such a concise emotionalization of the storyline that the music owes a markedly high proportion of the build-up of tension and threatening-driving atmosphere.
Reviews
David Nusair wrote on Reel Film Reviews that the film was a “ hopelessly convoluted would-be thriller” with too many dialogues ( “a talky, hopelessly convoluted would-be thriller” ). Despite the "relatively effective" portrayal of Ryan Phillippe, he was not drawn in in the slightest.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “complex psychological thriller” that was “ convincing due to the stringent direction and solid actors” .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Wales . Its production amounted to an estimated 8.8 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on March 21, 2004 at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films .
Web links
The I Inside - In the Eye of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The I Inside - In the Eye of the Dead at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.vvb.de/werke/showWerk?wid=551
- ↑ Model genre: Self-statement of the director on: Thorsten Otto in conversation with Roland Suso Richter Minute 38 ff. ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2011
- ↑ Film review by David Nusair, accessed on December 27, 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The I Inside in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 27, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for The I Inside, accessed December 27, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for The I Inside, accessed December 27, 2007
- ^ Opening dates for The I Inside, accessed December 27, 2007
