From Multiple Personalities to Possession and a crisis of faith!
Shelter review
- 35
- 5
13th April 2010
I am not quite sure what this movie was trying to achieve but whatever it was it left the viewers just downright confused.
(well me anyway. I have read reviews on other websites and most people seem to find the intertwining of the subject matters fuzzy at best.)
The story centres around Cara a professional in her field,who is
out to debunk the theory that the psyche can become fragmented and the result is a person with multiple personalities.She and her clinician father play a little game where he finds her
patients with severe psychological
oddities and she is set the challenge to prove him wrong: that there is no such thing as the unexplained.She has been quite successful in explaining away most patients she encounters and their behaviour until she meets Adam(he has many names). This person seems to have taken on several personalities all of dead people, so effectively this is where
the movie strays drastically as she is no longer dealing with multiple personalities but rather possession of some sort. The movie tries to introduce the concept of the argument between faith and science but the argument is presently so incoherently that one lands up feeling more confused than challenged. I thought the movie was dark and very amateurishly put together. The more Cara investigates and the closer she gets to uncovering the truth the more bizarre the film gets with almost everyone dying around her.
To be honest, I expected a film with Julianne Moore in it to be of higher calibre. I guess for those that unlike this Cara person,ACCEPT that not everything that happens in life should be backed up with a logical explanation, then there is no need to see this film. Because all the movie is out to do is prove that there is alot of bizarre stuff that happens out there and that perhaps neither God or Science can explain.And that is perhaps how it should be...
