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
