Resolution number 638: Do not watch movies whose titles start with “I know...”.
“I know who killed me”, as the name should suggest to any person with half his brain awake, is probably the saddest thing that happened to cinema screens.
Psychotic pianists, stigmatic twins, lame symbolism.. the movie even attempts at a motif.
I'll tell you what it is all about : (SPOILER ALERT people, although if you WANT to watch this movie, you should reflect on your tendency to make bad choices)
Lindsay Lohan – only daughter of affluent suburban parents who chooses writing over the piano goes to school where a classmate, missing for a few weeks, is found dead, with her right hand and right foot missing. Serial killer alert.
What do you know, soon enough Lindsay goes missing. Gore gore gore, fake blood fake blood fake blood, and Lindsay is found comatose in a ditch, minus a hand and a leg herself. Only, when she comes to, she claims to be someone else – as it happens to be, a character from Lindsay the writer's book. Hm... gravy.
Bearded forensic psychologists, split personality theory and regular such mulch for a while, and then boom – they throw stigmatic twins at you. There is not one Lindsay, but two (horror of horrors!), the father coughs up the facts – his baby died in the hospital, he bought one child from a poor crackhead mom who had given birth to twins. No apologies to Bollywood. None. Don't you say that plot twist sounds familiar. No it doesn't. Entirely original, I tell you. It came to the writer in the shower.
So anyway, stigmatic twins means that while this writer chick is undergoing leisurely dismemberment somewhere, her stripper twin bleeds spontaneously. Chop off Lindsay 1's finger, and sure enough, Lindsay 2 will pop a digit too. All blue and bloody, lying on the carpet. Elegant.
All that is well enough, but if you are wondering how she came to share the name and history of a character in Lindsay 1's book, you are clever and should be ashamed of watching such movies.
Finally, no thanks to the FBI, we learn that the bad guy is the pissed-off piano teacher who doesn't take well to students who quit on him. I of course knew who-done-it 10 minutes into the movie – I've had to deal with maniacal music teachers since age 5 up.
So brave little Lindsay 2 hobbles down to spooky house where she knows Lindsay 1 is being butchered in the basement (how does she know? – it has to do with blue flowers, visions, and an owl) – while rich suburban dad dies trying to rescue daughter, the psychotic pianist is no match for 90 pound armless legless Lindsay 2 whose bionic limbs, moreover, are running out of battery (ooh thrilling race against time!) - she manages to saw off his hand – this obviously doesn't agree with him, so he sulks at the piano and plays sad chords with his left hand till Lindsay 2 can take it no more, and sticks him one between the ribs.
Go Lindsay 2.
Then she limps down to the graveyard where she knows Lindsay 1 has been buried (I told you, owls, visions..), some few hours of digging, and there is our stained glass coffin with the blue rose motif (I just changed my decision on how I want to be put to rest – stained glass coffin it shall be) – Lindsay 2 breaks it open with an iron fist (no really, iron fist – she has a bionic hand, don't you pay attention?) - lo and behold! Lindsay 1 is alive and well, for someone who has been systematically cut up and then sealed and buried in an airless coffin for what has to have been hours.
Daniel did lecture me that the faults of this movie were not really faults, but “features” specific to it's genre, which apparently is "teen slasher". Good to know.
Boys and girls, This movie is like strangers with candy. Highly avoidable.
Monday, July 30, 2007
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3 comments:
Looks like there still are maniacs who are trying to club sci-fi + psychotic thriller + suspense + jasoos + good amount of bullshit
But I would rather sympathise with Danny - I understand that he is desperately trying to understand that there is much more to this world than husband's cheating on their ex-wife's boyfriend's illegal connection's long lost sister who is now his wife whcih seems to be todays avg Bollywood film for you - I definitely vote for bionic arms scaring me in the night than my friends' jiju's uncle's once-upon-a-time sweetheart's great grandson turning up at my doorstep asking for my hand!
Looks like there still are maniacs who are trying to club sci-fi + psychotic thriller + suspense + jasoos + good amount of bullshit into Bollywood movies these days...
But I would rather sympathise with Danny - I can completely understand his desperation to convince himself that there is much more to this world than husband's cheating on their ex-wife's boyfriend's illegal connection's long lost sister who is now his wife whcih seems to be todays avg Bollywood film for you - I definitely vote for bionic arms scaring me in the night than my friends' jiju's uncle's once-upon-a-time sweetheart's great grandson turning up at my doorstep asking for my hand!
Heh heh, its so much fun reading this review; now I've GOTTA watch this movie. See what you've done...
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