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Story Movie

A female psychiatrist penetrates into the mind of a serial killer who is in a coma. He has almost a dozen victims on his account - young girls, whom the maniac tortures in the most inhuman way before taking their lives. The last kidnapped has not been found, but there is hope that she can still be saved, and for this you need to get into the dark corners of the subconsciousness of a psychopath and find out where the torture chamber is located.

Review 4K Movie

Absurdity, brought to perfection, rarely acquires a touch of genius. Absurdity on the screen - a dangerous and unpredictable thing, the viewer will either call what is happening delirium and try to forget it as a terrible dream, or will elevate it to the status of a cult and will intensively search for a good hundred hidden meanings in what he has seen. By and large, in the subconsciousness of each of us reigns its own absurd reality, an original mysterious world that cannot be described, understood, and even more so analyzed. And no one seeks to open the door to it, to let a stranger in - out of fear, out of greed, out of the instinct of self-preservation and banal unwillingness to share the most intimate things. And this is probably right - no one wants to expose their fears, secret desires and strange dreams. However, Tarsem Singh dared to do so and created a real gift for silent aesthetic maniacs and hidden mental sadists. Welcome to “The Cage.”

You will have a strange journey through the mind of a comatose maniac, in order to find the answer to the question: where is his last victim. If the answer is not found in the next few hours - the unfortunate girl, locked in a glass cage aquarium, will turn into a fish. Inanimate. Jennifer Lopez as a child psychiatrist testing an innovative treatment program for children in a borderline state, risking a rare sado-masochist's mind forever, consents to such a journey. Does this remind you of anything? You can cite a dozen stories about psychiatrists, maniacs, about traveling through someone else's consciousness, and all these movies can surpass the plot of this tape several times. But all of them will immediately pale before “The Cage”, if you evaluate only their visual component. The faint-hearted are better to faint at once or just crawl away and squeeze your eyes shut. This is not horror, this is not fantasy, to tell the truth, it smells neither fear nor fairy tale. It's just the ravings of a madman brought to reality. A surreal thriller, that's all.

Having taken Uncle Freud and Grandma Death as his allies, studied the Oedipus complex and read Benjamin Spock, music video maker Tersem Singh's debut work gave practically nothing new for the thriller genre, but he still managed to produce an amazingly bright and beautiful child in its ugliness. There's no other way to put it. Mind travel is what he managed to create. There was such a feeling that to shoot the real world does not give him any joy, because it is simply necessary to launch the heroes into the world of unhealthy fantasies, and that's where the gorgeous spectacle begins. Surrealism of pure water, crazy grotesque, pathos, overflowing over the edge. The viewer simply suffocates from all this beauty (or still abomination), which fills the TV screen, slowly flows into the room and then - you are already in a cage and there is no way out....

And all this splendor could not spoil even J. Lo, rather on the contrary - a beautiful young woman, bright costumes, which fully compensate for the manifestation of acting skill. It, this skill, is superfluous here, it was not required here in principle. What is important here is something else - movements, poses, facial expressions, head tilt, gaze. Total symmetry, theatricality, absolute unnaturalness, contrasting colors. The only thing that stops from rashly recognizing the genius of director Tarsem Singh is the plot of the picture. Perhaps, here we should lay claim to screenwriter Mark Protosevich, whose work on “The Cage” was also his debut in the big movie. In “The Beyond”, released six years later, Tarsem Singh reaffirmed his commitment to his chosen style once and for all, which is why his films deserve the audience's attention.

The visual component of Tarsem's work is itself just a static picture, the music is what breathes life into his creations. Howard Shore's music is perfect in itself. When it is superimposed on an image, an amazing thing happens - the music simply dissolves into the scene, you don't focus on it, you forget about it, because it becomes part of the whole.

Whether it makes sense to talk about the inner content of “The Cage” is debatable. Being by and large an entertaining movie, the whole semantic load of its plot comes down to the simple statement that abstract evil itself has its roots in wrong upbringing. Hence the perverted perception of the surrounding world, all sorts of complexes and rudiments of “healthy” sadism, which traditionally goes together with masochism. But this is all that lies on the surface. If you wish, you can dig into the strange symbolism that fills the surreal world of the heroes' subconscious. The main thing here is to stop in time and not to take everything at face value. Can it be true that all this is just the most beautiful absurdity? Well, beauty is really a scary thing. Tarsem Singh's “The Cage” is proof of that.