Witch hunt of a different kind.
If you had a vague idea of seeing Premonition, do yourself a HUGE favor and DON'T.
Please don't read ahead if you're going to be offended by me throwing a few smallish stones at religion.
The moviefone and newspaper summaries don't give any sort of warning about the religious twist toward the end.
The basic idea is this: From Moviefone, "Devastated upon receiving the news that her husband has been killed in a tragic car accident, a woman wakes up to find him still very much alive as she begins to slip into a confusing world where the past and the future become increasingly difficult to distinguish.... in order to save the man she loves, Linda will have to piece together a perplexing mystery that seems to span two separate planes of reality."
The movie goes back and forth from day to day within a one-week span. It seems okay, although there are several events that just leave you thinking, WTF?! But then about 3/4 of the way through, she goes into a church, that she had apparently not visited for a long time, to ask the priest there for advice. The priest basically tells her that faith will save her. Faith in what? He doesn't know, she doesn't know, doesn't really matter, just Faith, with a capital F.
After that, it is pretty darn clear that this movie was sponsored by the Christian Right. Be a good little housewife. Have faith in your husband and turn the other cheek, even when he cheats on you. And when you finally realize this and decide to turn things around by seducing your husband before he goes to cheat on you (because your body is really all you're good for anyway)... he'll die anyway because it was Fate. It was Meant To Be. But you won't regret it because you still have your two daughters, the lights of your life, and you were rewarded for rediscovering that Faith that you had lost because now you're PREGNANT! Congratulations! You've fulfilled your highest priority and job description in being a woman -- reproduction!
When it was revealed in its entirety, I was stunned for a good long time. My mind keeps returning to it. I think I'm still somewhat in denial. Still slightly hoping to forget I ever saw it.
This movie made me sick.
.
.
.
I am now reading a couple of reviews I obviously should have looked harder to find before going to see this movie. My favorite line: "Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Please don't read ahead if you're going to be offended by me throwing a few smallish stones at religion.
The moviefone and newspaper summaries don't give any sort of warning about the religious twist toward the end.
The basic idea is this: From Moviefone, "Devastated upon receiving the news that her husband has been killed in a tragic car accident, a woman wakes up to find him still very much alive as she begins to slip into a confusing world where the past and the future become increasingly difficult to distinguish.... in order to save the man she loves, Linda will have to piece together a perplexing mystery that seems to span two separate planes of reality."
The movie goes back and forth from day to day within a one-week span. It seems okay, although there are several events that just leave you thinking, WTF?! But then about 3/4 of the way through, she goes into a church, that she had apparently not visited for a long time, to ask the priest there for advice. The priest basically tells her that faith will save her. Faith in what? He doesn't know, she doesn't know, doesn't really matter, just Faith, with a capital F.
After that, it is pretty darn clear that this movie was sponsored by the Christian Right. Be a good little housewife. Have faith in your husband and turn the other cheek, even when he cheats on you. And when you finally realize this and decide to turn things around by seducing your husband before he goes to cheat on you (because your body is really all you're good for anyway)... he'll die anyway because it was Fate. It was Meant To Be. But you won't regret it because you still have your two daughters, the lights of your life, and you were rewarded for rediscovering that Faith that you had lost because now you're PREGNANT! Congratulations! You've fulfilled your highest priority and job description in being a woman -- reproduction!
When it was revealed in its entirety, I was stunned for a good long time. My mind keeps returning to it. I think I'm still somewhat in denial. Still slightly hoping to forget I ever saw it.
This movie made me sick.
.
.
.
I am now reading a couple of reviews I obviously should have looked harder to find before going to see this movie. My favorite line: "Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly