April 22, 2009

'The Eye' Movie Review

A blind woman receives a double corneal transplant, only to realize that her new eyes allow her to see gruesome, supernatural images of death. She must unravel the mystery of the corneas' previous owner in order to make sense of the visions and perhaps make them stop.
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is a blind classical violinist (We know she's blind because her eyes are cloudy; otherwise, I guess we'd assume she's just really inattentive.) who receives a corneal transplant to restore the vision she lost as a child when her sister, Helen (Parker Posey), "accidentally" shot a firecracker into her face. Soon after the surgery, though, Sydney begins to see shadowy figures. This isn't unusual, of course, since everything is shadowy to her, having just undergone a corneal transplant.
But these particular shadowy figures are different, ominous. The first one seems to lead the elderly woman in the hospital bed next to hers away one night. The next morning, Sydney finds out that the woman is dead. Even after her death, Sydney could swear that she sees the old lady, but then again, she's not sure of anything she sees because it's all so blurry. (To hammer this point home, we're treated to half an hour of footage shot with Vaseline smeared on the camera lens.)
Even when her vision clears, Sydney's visions don't cease -- not just the shadowy figures and the dead people, but also scenes from someone else's life: a stranger's room, flashbacks to another existence and FIRE! She has to convince her therapist, Paul (Alessandro Nivola), that she's not crazy (It helps that she's hot.) so he can help her track down the donor and solve the mystery of the haunted corneas.

2 comments:

Hemanth Potluri said...

i am goin to watch it now :)..

urs..hemu..

Aparna said...

sure.. its worth watch it

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