Warning Spoilers!
This is my first review on IMDb. I have seen this movie 3 times now. First viewing was 6 months ago. 2nd and 3rd viewing last week. I have read all other reviews. Here is my assessment of the film:
Rating: 8 stars, B/B+, 10 stars given to counter-balance the lower ratings of others. Excellent acting, cinematography, music, plot/mystery.
See the movie, then see the movie again before reading the rest.
Warning Spoilers!
Alice, a translator living in Rome, develops paranoia and split personality. During her last translation session she becomes Nicole, caused by the subject matter of the translation, pollution and earth becoming uninhabitable. Alice is a woman with a few friends but no boyfriend/husband or family. She also takes some kind of pills. As Nicole she is paranoid that an organization and Professor Blackmann is after her. She goes to Garma to find her childhood lover, Harry. She changes her looks to disguise herself. There is no organization or Prof. Blackman. This is only in her mind. As Nicole, she must have found Harry and harmed his hand. We only have clues on what happened. At some point she traveled back to Rome and we are introduced to her dreaming about an astronaut being abandoned on the moon, then waking up, and finding out that she has lost 3 days. She tells her friends about the dream, referring to it as a movie she saw as a child. But we do not know if there was ever a movie or her paranoid mind made that up. The torn up post card she finds in her kitchen give a clue to her amnesia and she travels to Garma for the second time that week, this time as Alice. The people in Garma did recognize her. Harry was trying to help her. She reverts to Nicole/paranoia and kills him. She then tried to be Alice again, but finally loses it by imagining that the organization/astronauts are after her.
This is my first review on IMDb. I have seen this movie 3 times now. First viewing was 6 months ago. 2nd and 3rd viewing last week. I have read all other reviews. Here is my assessment of the film:
Rating: 8 stars, B/B+, 10 stars given to counter-balance the lower ratings of others. Excellent acting, cinematography, music, plot/mystery.
See the movie, then see the movie again before reading the rest.
Warning Spoilers!
Alice, a translator living in Rome, develops paranoia and split personality. During her last translation session she becomes Nicole, caused by the subject matter of the translation, pollution and earth becoming uninhabitable. Alice is a woman with a few friends but no boyfriend/husband or family. She also takes some kind of pills. As Nicole she is paranoid that an organization and Professor Blackmann is after her. She goes to Garma to find her childhood lover, Harry. She changes her looks to disguise herself. There is no organization or Prof. Blackman. This is only in her mind. As Nicole, she must have found Harry and harmed his hand. We only have clues on what happened. At some point she traveled back to Rome and we are introduced to her dreaming about an astronaut being abandoned on the moon, then waking up, and finding out that she has lost 3 days. She tells her friends about the dream, referring to it as a movie she saw as a child. But we do not know if there was ever a movie or her paranoid mind made that up. The torn up post card she finds in her kitchen give a clue to her amnesia and she travels to Garma for the second time that week, this time as Alice. The people in Garma did recognize her. Harry was trying to help her. She reverts to Nicole/paranoia and kills him. She then tried to be Alice again, but finally loses it by imagining that the organization/astronauts are after her.