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- a visual manifest of our fears -
boogsy from ,
29th April, 2009
a good film it was. but it was a blatant copy of Lost Highway, in fact it was identically structured as Lost highway, both opening concept and closing scene.... as per LH in this film , the ONLY part of the film which portrays real life events is the opening 30 secs, up to the point when the camera pans upwards and into the sky, whilst them music peaks and then the scene goes black...... ( LH has the same structure, only the 1st 30secs or so are real ) .......... from then on, all the events we see are a reconstruction of real life events, replayed through Ginas tormented mind ( same as LH ) .......... the ending scene is almost exactly the same as LH , Gina is in the car and the flashing light at the back represents the fact her mind is re-adjusting itself to a new perception/reality.... in LH we see the character in the car also, but instead of the flashing light, the character is shaking its head into a blurried frenzy and also there are lights flashing upon it.......... so overall The Broken is a shameless homage to LH and thats not a bad thing... however where LH can be anaylsed and decyphered, The Broken does not seem to be offer any reason for the characters tormented mindset..... so a copycat nonetheless, but one where NO underlining story seems to be apparent, IE what were the reason/s for her tormented mindset ? what triggered it off ? mental illness ? a personal trauma ? an accident ? in LH we see in the opening scene what caused the mental problems, and its understandable why the character wants to escape their reality... in The Broken no reason is given or implied, as the opening scene is all the reality we get to see, and nothing happens in that apparent from she drives off in a Jeep. so this is more of a generic inner struggle with our demons/fears rather than a specific act which triggered the struggle....... a good film nonetheless, only marginally different ( in concept ) to LH by virtue of it's generic 'face your fears' approach....
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