Monday, March 19, 2007

Premonition, He Said

I swear we are a nation becoming obsessed with the paranormal. TV is loaded with people who have super powers, including the Series "Medium". We seem to want to believe that we can see into the future and somehow change bad events into good.
In this film, Linda Hanson, played by Sandra Bullock, believes that her husband has died in an automobile accident until she wakes up the next day and he is sitting in the kitchen catching up on the news and eating breakfast. His two daughters, who the day before had been told that their daddy had died, were non-plussed about his appearance.
The story is told entirely from the Point of view of Linda. As the film progresses we are pulled into a continuing and increasingly horrible nightmare, where reality and imagination are challenged. The story resolves itself in a decision by her husband to stay with his family or leave them for another woman. The premonition's are resolved as real and the ending is a shocker.
I found the script in this film very weak. The sequences of events had to be explained by a device where Linda actually charts the sequence so that she and we could understand it. This is not going onto my favorite film list
Sandra Bullock has always been a lovable cute and funny actress. Her recent appearance in "Crash" and her dramatic portrayal in this film impress with her breadth as an actress.

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