
Blurs Reality Into Dreams. Novel Idea Yet Confusing!

Seems like everything Sandra Bullock has been involved in is definitely worth a look. In this Mennan Yapo thriller, Linda Hanson's (Bullock) seems have a perfect life until she supposedly receives a knock on the door informing her of her husband's untimely demise in a freak car crash.
The idea for this film is pretty novel, although, clearly, if she had been seeing her true future, then why was it that she actually wound up witnessing her husband's death. That was the only piece of the confusing puzzle that didn't really fall into place for me.
Her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) was planning on having an affair with a close female worker, when Linda started having visions of some kind. This leads me to believe that, somehow, her premonitions might have actually caused him to have the accident, because he was turning around his car and changing his mind at the actual time of the accident.
The scenes where she finds Jim the next morning eating breakfast at the house was pretty spooky. You don't really expect to have a story play in supposed reality and then jump to something else. This makes the viewer extra suspicious about her sanity. This not only happens once, but as the week progresses, Linda wakes up to find Jim alive again or dead again in an increasingly confusing way. There is no pattern that she or the audience can draw upon. When Linda realizes that the day of his death is imminent and that all that she sees must be a premonition, that's when she decides she must try to save Jim. However, later, when she finds out about the other women (Amber Valetta), she seriously questions his love and their relationship.
The film that really does a wonderful job of playing with time is Christopher Nolan's MEMENTO where everything that happened in the film came in total reverse like tiny snapshots in time, but moving in reverse.
Thinking non-linear is more difficult than one would expect when it comes to solve mysteries, however, if well delve beneath the surface, the unknown becomes more powerful to us, the more we struggle with future occurrences (pleasant or otherwise).
I'm going to have to give this a 4/5 because I finished the film with much curiosity.
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