One of the best and most memorable roles of actress Jennifer Lopez is the movie "Cage". Reviews of the film are exclusively positive. What is this movie about?
About the tape
The heroine played by Jennifer Lopez treats personality disorders in a very unusual and even futuristic way. With the help of a special machine, it penetrates the patient’s mind in order to carry out a dialogue with his subconscious, to identify the causes of deviations and to localize them.
It is only in an unhealthy mind that a disease, which in fact is usually displayed in the form of frightening diagnoses, takes on very hostile and even demonic outlines. So on the heroine’s table gets a maniac-schizophrenic, who fell into a coma due to the fact that the disease crept too deep into his brain. Katherine will have to penetrate the terrible kingdom that a new patient has built in his mind to find out where in the real world the kidnapped girl is hidden.
Her life is in danger, because Karl kills victims in a very sophisticated way: puts them in a sealed glass chamber, where water is supplied for a long time.
Author's idea
Reviews of the movie "Cage" celebrate not only the ingenious acting of Jennifer Lopez, but also a great author’s idea. The plot is based on the idea that injuries suffered in childhood leave an indelible imprint on the child's psyche. And in many ways this has an impact on the future of man.
Reviews of the audience about the film "Cell" note that the film teaches to understand the full value of human life and the psyche, as well as the problems in raising the younger generation and domestic violence. The topic is very relevant.
Plot
The description of the film “Cell” and reviews about it make it clear that the director did not release a second-rate product that is corrupted by erotic scenes and vulgar flirting with pseudoscientific terms. The picture is composed very competently and emphasizes the problematic aspects of such a fragile thing as human reason.
Jennifer Lopez’s journey into the demonic consciousness of a schizophrenic maniac is littered with dangers at every turn. In his world, the patient differently represents those victims whom he abducted in real life. In his brain, there is something like a terrible wax museum, which appears more likely not before a psychologist girl who secretly wants to sneak past them, but before the viewer himself.
At the same time, the author does not endow the killer with unambiguous demonic features, but makes it clear that somewhere deep down he is still the same kind little naive boy who lacked love and understanding. And to some extent, Karl is still looking for them. However, in this kingdom the evil component of the personality rules, which everywhere follows its bright double.
The main task of a professional psychiatrist is not to perish in this kingdom and not to lose oneself. Otherwise, there is a risk of becoming part of the sick imagination of your own patient and staying in the dream machine forever.
Actors and roles
The film "Cage" is recognized by the cover of Jennifer Lopez. The remaining artists are not so famous and, perhaps, are lost against her background. But this does not detract from the author’s ideas and the genius of the message that the picture carries. The actors are amazing, their game is lively, they are not cliched discs, which are simply set out by learned monologues. They are scared and worried, really afraid to get stuck in this nightmare.
Antagonist
He played perfectly in the film Vincent D'Onofrio - it was he who got the role of a maniac.
According to the plot, Catherine is unable to overcome the evil that settled in the boy’s mind, because the demon draws energy from its own territory. And then the heroine decides to take a desperate step: redirect the flows in the car to play on her own battlefield. Thus, she invited a light particle of the patient into her consciousness.
In this kingdom, she is represented by a goddess who owns a garden of paradise, where birds sing, fish splash in the pond and abound in bright colors. It is in such an environment that the next psychological session takes place. At some point, she manages to establish contact with the child and tune in a positive way. But suddenly, the boy realizes that he cannot stay here forever, and then his dark essence clings to those unsteady, barely tangible strings of disappointment that creep up to his soul and slowly but surely braid his mind, are getting closer and closer, and now the colors are fading . Instead of songbirds, vile creatures appear, the sun sets, and the nearest pond turns into a puddle of mud, from which the same demon appears, which, by the way, did not come up with a name.
Of course, the heroine manages to defeat evil, but, unfortunately, it takes with it the bright component of the little boy. Nevertheless, it turned out to find out where in reality the kidnapped girl is hidden.
Conclusion
For Jennifer Lopez, this is one of the most memorable roles: a very unusual lively and the most believable. According to reviews of the movie "Cell", the audience was interested in the issue of the second part. But the sequel is very weakly correlated with the first part and should be evaluated as a separate work. Yes, and this is not needed: everything has already been said, and the thought has found a logical conclusion.
Even the actors of the movie "Cell 2" have nothing to do with the first part.
The heroine Jennifer Lopez eventually took the albino dog. This animal was previously owned by her patient, who, unfortunately, did not survive this session. But his mind still found peace.
The film is filled with deep philosophical meaning, which tells about how powerful consciousness can be and how insignificant human flesh is in comparison with it. The idea makes it clear that it is far from always worth putting the physical body at the forefront, while the psychological component of any person does not function correctly. Speaking in mundane language, if consciousness is ill, the body is also sick!