[狙击电话亭] Phone Booth (2003)

Category: Movies

Genre: crime, suspense and psychological

~PLOT~

The suspense movie was bought by 20th Century Fox and director of John Schumacher. It was a crime, suspense and psychological English film, entitled Phone Booth. The movie offers an exciting “mind game” plot between the mysterious caller and the main character. The all-star included Colin Farrell as Stu Shepard, Kiefer Sutherland as the mysterious Caller, Forest Whitaker as the inspector, Radha Mitchell as Kelly, Katies Holmes as Pamela.

The main character, Stu Shepard is held hostage and trapped inside a phone booth in New York City after he answered the mysterious phone call by an anonymous. He is threated to reveal his entire secret, lies and truth to his wife, Kelly and his lover, Palm. He is warned not to leave the phone booth and all of his moves are restricted. Conflicts arise when three prostitutes and a pimp asked him to come out from the phone booth.      

~REVIEW~

The greatness of this movie is fewer characters are used to develop the plot and location is fixed into one place almost from the beginning till the end of the movie. The whole film shows the struggling and also conversation between the main character and the Caller. The director has made the scene convincingly engaging from time to time. That, in my opinion, is the uniqueness of this film. I seldom watch this kind of movie; I prefer fantasy, fairy-tale and science-fiction movies. However, I enjoy it because of the suspense element and the exciting plot. Frankly, I’ve watched this film before when I was in secondary school.   

There was a slight emotional and sentimental element in Phone Booth when Stu has decided to confess of his own personality and tell the truth of his relationship with Kelly and Pam in front of everyone. Anyone could empathize with these feelings and pay attention to him.        

For me Phone Booth has shown the nature of human emotions. After digesting the story, you will understand the concept of the film and see how human react or solve their problem during their panic situation. People are unconscious about the stress shaping their behaviour. The self-imposed stress and outside pressures by other people will make a person hardly to be rationale and logic.  A person’s decision is greatly influenced by psychological factors and the environment.

   

REFERENCE LIST

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), www.imdb.com