The Cell

I just saw this movie all the way through last weekend. I watched it like five times. The director Tarsem Singh and the writer Mark Protosevich certainly have an imagination. The movie is about an FBI agent (Vince Vaughn) on the hunt for a serial killer that kidnaps young women, puts them in a fully-automated "aquarium" ,and leaves them there,with the aquarium set up to slowly fill up with water, torturing the victim. The aquarium is known as "the cell."
After the victim has drowned, he takes them home and bleaches them out to make them look like dolls. Then he dumps the body off wherever he feels necessary. The schizophrenic serial killer is known as Carl Rudolph Stargher(Vincent D'Onofrio). Unfortunately for the FBI, Carl has just captured his latest victim, but has reached the "infraction" in his form of schizophrenia, and therefore is unable to tell police just where Julia Hickson(Tara Subkoff) is. Carl suffers from a form of schizophrenia known as "Whelan's Infraction"-in which one affected by it would "disappear" mentally, and never be able to wake up- and he ends up in a comatose-state.

"This thing is caused by a virus... that infects the neurologicalsystem in utero.
It lays dormant... until it's triggered by some kind of trauma.
Most likely, he's exhibited symptoms for some time... but the infraction,or the breach... didn't occur until today.The triggers can vary.Uh, usually water-related,but the results don't vary.
He's not just catatonic.He's disappeared-- like having a dream and never waking up."
- Dr. Reid(Pruitt Taylor Vince)

Peter Novak(Vince Vaughn) goes to psychotherapist Catherine Deane(Jennifer Lopez) as the last possible solution to save Julia Hickson from her watery-fate. Catherine participates in an experimental procedure that allows her to enter the minds of people and experience what they're thinking and feeling, like it's real. Once she enters the twisted mind of Carl, though, she becomes lost in a world that she believes is real. She finds that Carl was a victim of his father's abuse for many years, and that his desire to play with dolls as a child ultimately led to his "bleaching" idea. Novak has to journey into Carl's mind in order to save Catherine, and thus he discovers the location of the victim. While he heads out to save Julia, Catherine decides to bring carl into her mind, and he tells her to drown him, because it's better that way. She complies, Julia is found in the nick of time, and all is well again, for all of them.

-I think it's a good movie, it may seem a little weird at first, but it's good.

-I would reccomend this to any serial-killer-movie-fans, but I wouldn't reccomend it to the faint of heart, or those who're creeped out easily by eccentric things.

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