Sunday, January 22, 2006

the drug Vs. the placebo...


just one of those few movies that really makes me think... think not only what would happen... but also what actually did. right from the scene in the morgue slab when liotta is offered a choice... a strange one rather... to die as a convict or to live as a experimental subject on whom tests will be conducted by dafoe on this new experimental drug that could turn an extreme n' severe psychopath like liotta into some average individual who'll know the difference of right from wrong n' also inject some more complicated feelings like remorse. still on phase 1, the doctors were not sure what the side effects maybe... they're assumin it to be minor ones but still too early to conclude.

the story revolves around the central character liotta but also shows the life of a successful n' talented doctor dafoe... the kind of success that carries the shadows of some deep wounded sorrows. a very renown worker in the leadin pharmaceutical company of the state, who features with a very attractive co-worker in the same office who is ready to sleep with him almost anytime; is standin on the verge of a divorce with his wife who he claims to be smarter n' prettier than her office mate; father of a son that died in some street crime when they were drivin back home.


but it's only the intense liotta that turns this movie into somekind of masterpiece in terms of performance....those looks of a killer to those tears of remorse... of a changed man was so very gradual. it's quite an unusual story of a man who saw his mother bein murdured when he was 10, the kid who was beaten by his father every tuesday... who eventually turned out to be a killer n' was later bein selected as an experiment.... who later also manages to fall in love with the pretty michelle rodriguez who was someone who relied much on trust when it comes down to handlin relationships.


i thought it was quite an unique story of those events encountered by this man, liotta that makes this surreal statement that it's equally tough to be a killer n' a non-killer... because the non-killer accuses the killer in his sleep who turns him into an insomniac n' the past of the killer never leaves the non-killer alone.
he was sentenced to death... then he was chosen to live... but his destiny was already planned.


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