Monday, April 14, 2008

The Eye...a movie review



Jessica Alba’s new movie The Eye is based on another Chinese or specifically Hong Kong movie carry the same name.
This movie’s poster show you the movie as a horror movie but after half an hour from the beginning of The Eye you will surprised to find that the story and the idea behind the movie are much deeper than what has the poster shown us.
Jessica Alba plays Sydney Wells, a blind violinist who will discover the world after ages of darkness with new eyes which she had got by undergoing an operation to restore the eyesight, when she first starts looking at things around her she found it normal to see abnormal things as well for the reason that she and her doctors thought that she still discovering the world and might see undefined things according to her situation.
Later, she was certain from one thing: that she is seeing frightening creatures leading people around her to their death, normally she had told everybody of the strange things happening with her and more normally nobody had believed her for the first few times until one of these people was willing to sacrifice his life and career for her and not because he believed her but because he fell in love with her!!!
The director of the movie did an ok job but the problem lies on the writer who made a lousy connection among events in the movie, for instance, Sydney Wells was so upset that nobody is believing her disturbing visions so that she decided to leave her job and not even inform any of her colleagues or boss that she want some rest for some time until she feels better then join again, so she let the job go to hell and sat at home with damaging all the light sources in the flat, closing and covering all the windows with blankets, staying in this state for 2-3 days with only phone calls from her sister who was leaving the town, but the strange thing is that nobody had thought of visiting her flat to see what did happened to her, this is no. one.
No. two, her doctor Paul Faulkner was not believing her at the beginning and may be he was more than anyone else refusing the idea that she is seeing abnormal visions but that she was refusing the fact that she has to face the new world and that why she started to see strange things, and suddenly he put everything in risk for her and went with her to Mexico to meet the donor’s family who she suspected that this might be pointing a light on her situation.
The movie is definitely not horror, and definitely not adding to Jessica Alba’s filmography a masterpiece, but let’s says it is a normal movie that you can watch on TV and not in theaters.

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