In 2010, the movie "Buried Alive" was released at the box office. Reviews of the film left by visitors to virtual cinemas are proof of how modern people need film projects that can "reach out" to the soul: even those who categorically did not like the film watched it to the end.
Creative tandem "Cortes - Torrens"
While the director Rodrigo Cortes (who is also the co-producer of the picture) was shooting Buried Alive, his colleague Carlens Torrens brought to life another project of Cortes - Apartment 143. But the topic of paranormal phenomena did not let Rodrigo go - right after “Buried ...” he took up the adaptation of a script written by himself. The film "Red Lights", which premiered in 2011, is the result of these efforts.
The scriptwriter Chris Sparling was no less interested in the mystical theme: after finishing work on the movie Buried Alive, he set about writing the script for the horror movie ATM.
Nobody was going to save the hostages ...
Public interest in the work of Cortez as a writer, screenwriter and director did not decrease after the film “Buried Alive” was released in the box office. Actors and character reviews are two topics that only those who can’t write did not comment.
For some viewers, the film was too difficult to understand - judging by the comments, not everyone had the patience to look at the picture from beginning to end.
The end of this drama does not give the viewer a reason for fanfiction - Paul Conrey dies, being buried alive. The reviews left on the page of one of the virtual cinemas indicate the audience’s reluctance to admit that no one is interested in saving the Americans who came to Iraq to earn some money and are in trouble.
The main character of the picture is called a soldier executed by Iraqi rebels, although Conrey repeated several times that he is a simple American, attracted by the opportunity to make good money. Special services officers repeatedly specified the social status of a compatriot, and realizing that he was a civilian, they lost interest in him.
Romantically optimistic optimists, until the last minute, hoped for a happy end (this is evidenced by their reviews). The buried American Paul Conray, unfortunately, was never found. His last hope of salvation dies after the final phrase, uttered at the very end of the picture.
“The film, of course, is crazy, but I really liked it ...”
“This film can be used as a visual aid in psychology classes dedicated to the study of stages of fear,” wrote a visitor to a virtual cinema. This opinion was agreed by the majority (about 80%) of users of the world wide network who watched the movie "Buried alive." Description of the intrigue: an American citizen who came to Iraq to earn money is attacked by local residents. A man loses consciousness, and waking up, discovers that he is in a boarded up coffin.
A large number of "likes" earned a comment, the author of which saw a deep political subtext in the film "Buried Alive." Reviews of the film, devoted to the development of events, indicate that such a movie is not for everyone. For some viewers, the picture seemed too boring, for others - too heavy for perception.
Also among the most discussed topics is monetary. The budget of the movie, all the scenes of which were shot in a wooden box, became the cause of heated debate and complaints. According to information published on the Internet, $ 30,000,000 was spent on filming "Buried ..."
The film "Buried Alive": actors and roles in the frame and behind the scenes
Throughout the film, there is only one actor on the screen - Ryan Reynolds. All his colleagues are behind the scenes: the viewer hears only their voices.
In terms of number, the collective of the creators of the film “Buried Alive” - the director, actors (the reviews collected in this article, concern the film as a whole) and other persons involved - is not inferior to other projects.
The actors: JosĂ© Luis GarcĂa PĂ©rez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowski, Samantha Matis, Ivana Minho, Warner Laughlin, Eric Palladino, Cali Rocha, Chris Martin worked behind the scenes .
The film "Buried Alive": a description of the plot and reviews of viewers online
Paul Conray, an American citizen who came to Iraq to work, comes to his senses in total darkness. He tries to rise, but rests against an invisible barrier ... Having examined the place he fell into, under the light of a lighter in his pocket, Conrey discovers that he is in an enclosed space resembling a coffin.
Paul recalls that his truck (Conrey works as a driver) was closing a convoy with humanitarian luggage. When the children appeared on the road and threw stones at the motorcade, Paul did not immediately notice the adult Iraqis with machine guns ... He lost consciousness from a stone blow on his head, but woke up here - in a boarded-up coffin.
Panic horror, followed by deep despair
Realizing that he was locked in a wooden box, Conrey is indignant and is desperately trying to get out of his little “punishment cell”. Having exhausted himself, he realizes that the attempts are futile: despair is replaced by indifference ...
When the forces (and with them the ability to think sensibly) return to Conrey, he tries to restore the events of the last hours in his memory and understand what happened to him. Looking around again, Paul discovers a mobile phone near him and dials “911”, but the rescue service officers do not believe his words ...
Seeing in the contact list the number probably belonging to the kidnappers, Paul makes a call. A voice is heard in the receiver, which, judging by the accent, belongs to the Iraqi: “Five million tonight or stay buried ...”, but Paul’s family does not have that kind of money ...
A sense of hopelessness flowing into passive inaction
Luck smiles at Conrei: he manages to get through to the State Department and ... face a phenomenon like a bureaucratic machine. Representatives of the State Department are extremely polite, but indifferent. In monotonous voices, they ask the person who is hanging on the verge of death the protocol questions necessary to put a “tick” in the corresponding column of the form.
After receiving answers to questions of interest to her, another interlocutor in an icy tone voices Paul "sentence": "The policy of the United States is this: do not enter into negotiations with terrorists."
Laughing without a smile and trying to think sensibly
The phone was thrown into Paul’s coffin for a reason: the prisoner must record a video message addressed to everyone who is not indifferent to his fate and who is willing to pay for the freedom of the hostage. This is the second demand of the kidnapper and it is extremely concerned for the American military, whose voices periodically come from the bowels of the phone and make the protagonist’s eyes light up with hope or roll up from hopelessness.
Suspecting that his life, as well as the life of other foreign hostages, is of no value, Paul turns to the next "interlocutor" with a request to provide evidence that at least one hostage has been saved.
“Mark White, a 26-year-old medic who came to help local doctors. About three weeks ago he was captured by insurgents ... Now he is already at home, ”the answer sounded. Mark White's name has sounded twice in the film - in the middle and at the very end of the film.
The mention of desperate Iraqis who were left without a livelihood and who support their families at the expense of people like Paul sounds repeatedly ... It is spoken by secret service employees who were able to get through to the dead person who was alive. Reviews of visitors to online cinemas calling the kidnapper a jihadist indicate that viewers share the main character's opinion: no one will tell him the truth ...
Paul Conrey does not believe that the person who captured him is a civilian forced to commit such a cruel act in order to save his family from starvation.
"I'm sorry, Paul ..."
There is one character in the film who seems to care about Paul’s fate. This man’s name is Brenner, he’s the head of the unit, whose goal is to save people like Conrey. Brenner makes a promise that neither the audience nor the buried man alive believed. The reviews of most users who watched the discussed film to the end are full of regret - after all, they still hope for a happy ending ...
Brenner is already in Iraq and, led by a terrorist who has agreed to exchange his freedom for the life of one of the hostages, is hurrying to help Paul Conrey. A little more and the prisoner will be free ...
Brenner’s last sentence in the final scene of the film is the final sentence, unconditional and not subject to appeal: “I'm sorry, Paul ... here in this coffin lies Mark White ...”