Parallels
I just saw the most amazing move i've seen in a while. It's 12:50am.
The movie was called 'The Jacket' and had Adrian Brody and Keira Knightley in it. She put on a little weight for the part - not that she looks any better - and i think she looks quite sickly being as thin as she is - but i guess it suited the role.
The movie was about him having supposedly shot a cop and then being thrown into a.....what's the word....containment, confinement, hospital....a combination of those things - for the criminally ill. Because he couldn't recall what happened and seemed delusional of whatever he did recall - he was pronounced mentally unfit and sent into this - 'facility' (that's the word).
When here, he finds himself being treated by a doctor who's using him as a human guinea pig for drug research that was banned in 1971. Supposedly the doctor wants to create a 'womb like' state for his patients - in them using these drugs.
In this patients case - the treatment involves being straight-jacketed under heavy doses of drugs and then being slid into a mortuary style 'shelf' that slides in and slides out - with a small door being shut behind it. This causes him to 'delude' a little bit more.
He believes he - while being in the 'cell' - he can see 2007 when the year he's in is actually 1992/93. He dies in 1993.
In seeing the future - he sees Keira Knightley being a drunk junkie with paper and plastic cups in her fridge. In constantly going back into the jacket - he can go see her - he also goes into the future and sees the exact cause of his death. He also sees that in knowing when exactly he will die - he can in 1993 - go to Keira's mum and warn her, in telling her to stop smoking so that she doesn't burn to death one day when she's asleep - leaving Keira to grow up a junkie much the same as her.
What struck me about the film was the letter Adrian Brody wrote to Keira Knightley's mum towards the end of the film. At one point he says, "...I'm no different than anybody else, I've just seen a little more of the world than they have. Sometimes we go through certain things withouth knowing why they happen to us - other than knowing the fact that they did. And we beat the odds..."
The concept was sheer brilliance.
I just found this website - http://www.imsdb.com - which is the Internet Movie Script Database. You can go there and look up your fav movies and get exact dialogues...really cool. Anyway - i found the script of 'The Jacket'. And this is the letter he wrote to her knowing that he was going to die in a few hours and help her live in telling her he was.
"I was 25 years old the first time I
died. It didn't end anything though.
[Beat] Sometimes I think we live
through things only to be able to
tell them, to bear witness, to say
this happened.
And it wasn't to someone else. It
was to me. And I lived despite it.
Sometimes I think we live to beat
the odds. And sometimes I agree
that life can only begin with the
knowledge of death. That it can all
end, even when you least want it
to.
I'm telling you my story because
it's the only way I can try to help
your daughter, and you, have a
better one of your own.
It's scary...and lucky...how much we
can forget. Scary because we think
the past gives us our bearing, and
lucky because in those moments I'm
talking about, you realize it
doesn't. And it never had to.
I am not a crazy man, even though
they mistook me for one. I live in
the same world as the rest of you.
Only I saw more of it.
And the seeing is the only way you
can hear what the truth around you
is saying: you can always start
believing in things you don't
already believing in. And, while
you're alive, it's never too late.
I promise you, Jean. No matter how
bad the days and things around you
look, they look better awake than
they do asleep. I can offer you
some proof: when you die, there's
only one thing you want to have
happen...sometimes so badly it
comes true, I guess. [Beat] You
want to come back."
A recommended watch by a (presently) sleep deprived movie buff.
The movie was called 'The Jacket' and had Adrian Brody and Keira Knightley in it. She put on a little weight for the part - not that she looks any better - and i think she looks quite sickly being as thin as she is - but i guess it suited the role.
The movie was about him having supposedly shot a cop and then being thrown into a.....what's the word....containment, confinement, hospital....a combination of those things - for the criminally ill. Because he couldn't recall what happened and seemed delusional of whatever he did recall - he was pronounced mentally unfit and sent into this - 'facility' (that's the word).
When here, he finds himself being treated by a doctor who's using him as a human guinea pig for drug research that was banned in 1971. Supposedly the doctor wants to create a 'womb like' state for his patients - in them using these drugs.
In this patients case - the treatment involves being straight-jacketed under heavy doses of drugs and then being slid into a mortuary style 'shelf' that slides in and slides out - with a small door being shut behind it. This causes him to 'delude' a little bit more.
He believes he - while being in the 'cell' - he can see 2007 when the year he's in is actually 1992/93. He dies in 1993.
In seeing the future - he sees Keira Knightley being a drunk junkie with paper and plastic cups in her fridge. In constantly going back into the jacket - he can go see her - he also goes into the future and sees the exact cause of his death. He also sees that in knowing when exactly he will die - he can in 1993 - go to Keira's mum and warn her, in telling her to stop smoking so that she doesn't burn to death one day when she's asleep - leaving Keira to grow up a junkie much the same as her.
What struck me about the film was the letter Adrian Brody wrote to Keira Knightley's mum towards the end of the film. At one point he says, "...I'm no different than anybody else, I've just seen a little more of the world than they have. Sometimes we go through certain things withouth knowing why they happen to us - other than knowing the fact that they did. And we beat the odds..."
The concept was sheer brilliance.
I just found this website - http://www.imsdb.com - which is the Internet Movie Script Database. You can go there and look up your fav movies and get exact dialogues...really cool. Anyway - i found the script of 'The Jacket'. And this is the letter he wrote to her knowing that he was going to die in a few hours and help her live in telling her he was.
"I was 25 years old the first time I
died. It didn't end anything though.
[Beat] Sometimes I think we live
through things only to be able to
tell them, to bear witness, to say
this happened.
And it wasn't to someone else. It
was to me. And I lived despite it.
Sometimes I think we live to beat
the odds. And sometimes I agree
that life can only begin with the
knowledge of death. That it can all
end, even when you least want it
to.
I'm telling you my story because
it's the only way I can try to help
your daughter, and you, have a
better one of your own.
It's scary...and lucky...how much we
can forget. Scary because we think
the past gives us our bearing, and
lucky because in those moments I'm
talking about, you realize it
doesn't. And it never had to.
I am not a crazy man, even though
they mistook me for one. I live in
the same world as the rest of you.
Only I saw more of it.
And the seeing is the only way you
can hear what the truth around you
is saying: you can always start
believing in things you don't
already believing in. And, while
you're alive, it's never too late.
I promise you, Jean. No matter how
bad the days and things around you
look, they look better awake than
they do asleep. I can offer you
some proof: when you die, there's
only one thing you want to have
happen...sometimes so badly it
comes true, I guess. [Beat] You
want to come back."
A recommended watch by a (presently) sleep deprived movie buff.
