If you see a movie titled The Sender with no synopsis what would you think it was about?
A.) Someone who is the designated e-mailer for his/her company
B.) Someone who sends soldiers off to certain death
C.) Someone who sends death threats to various politicians
D.) Someone who telepathically sends his/her dreams to others
If you answered D then you answered correctly. It is kind of odd calling such a person a "sender." John Doe (Zeljko Ivanek) was an exceptionally pale young man that had the uncontrollable ability to project his dream so that others experienced them. Naturally, these weren't good dreams.
The premise is interesting but the direction wasn't. It seems the goal of the movie was to get him to remember. He was a suicidal amnesiac and the hospital he was confined too was trying to get him to stop being suicidal and remember. Eventually their goal was to stop him from sending much to the objections of his primary psychiatrist, Dr. Gail Farmer (Kathryn Harrold).
The movie was very anticlimactic. Does he regain his memory, does he not? Does he stop sending gruesome thoughts, does he not? Does he stop being suicidal, does he not? You'd have to have an emotional investment in the Sender himself for these questions to matter. The Sender and his plight was so unintriguing that the resolution was likewise unintriguing. This movie initially drew me then sorta dumped me on the side of the road leaving me uninterested and indifferent.
A.) Someone who is the designated e-mailer for his/her company
B.) Someone who sends soldiers off to certain death
C.) Someone who sends death threats to various politicians
D.) Someone who telepathically sends his/her dreams to others
If you answered D then you answered correctly. It is kind of odd calling such a person a "sender." John Doe (Zeljko Ivanek) was an exceptionally pale young man that had the uncontrollable ability to project his dream so that others experienced them. Naturally, these weren't good dreams.
The premise is interesting but the direction wasn't. It seems the goal of the movie was to get him to remember. He was a suicidal amnesiac and the hospital he was confined too was trying to get him to stop being suicidal and remember. Eventually their goal was to stop him from sending much to the objections of his primary psychiatrist, Dr. Gail Farmer (Kathryn Harrold).
The movie was very anticlimactic. Does he regain his memory, does he not? Does he stop sending gruesome thoughts, does he not? Does he stop being suicidal, does he not? You'd have to have an emotional investment in the Sender himself for these questions to matter. The Sender and his plight was so unintriguing that the resolution was likewise unintriguing. This movie initially drew me then sorta dumped me on the side of the road leaving me uninterested and indifferent.