Sunday evening broadcast on television Stir of Echoes (far more beautiful and meaningful the original title, Stir of Echoes), beautiful 1999 film directed by David Koepp and starring a talented Kevin Bacon .
The film is often shown on television, but I wanted a moment to emphasize the importance and originality of the title.
Little Jake has special powers ... it seems able to speak with the dead and sees things that others can not. The father Tom is a young man disappointed by life and not satisfied, apparently an ordinary person. After a hypnotic session, something changes in him and begins to see and hear strange things ...
The plot may at first suggest The Sixth Sense, M. Night overrated film of the phantom Shyamalan. Often, this film was pulled over and place in the wake of the movie with Bruce Willis. But in reality the two films are of the same year and, although starting from a given municipality, then diverge to different shores.
While Shyamalan's film is built around the final effect, however, anticipated by a growing tension, that of the unknown Koepp is built on doubt, on anxiety research. The story centers on the child than the father trying to unravel the tangle of his visions, facing a new gift for the first time. The film sometimes gets stuck, but has the advantage of often fill the viewer in doubt, provide clues and ideas and then not fully explained, but they're standing, something increasingly rare nowadays. Of note also a clever use of special effects, really well done and refined. The film is based partly thanks to the interpretation of Bacon, always ready to sacrifice the story that plays every now and scored substantial points of his filmography ( Tremors, Mystic River, The Woodsman ). Koepp has rejected the less successful Secret Window.
Some memorable sequences: the scene of hypnosis, with images of the cinema / theater, the visions of Bacon and a shift in the other dimension, the final scene ...
last note. Behind a great movie, there is often a great writer ... It is not always true, but in this case. The story is in fact taken from a story by the great Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers still living, the acknowledged master Stephen King. Matheson is unknown to most, but in reality is the author of I Am Legend , from which various versions have been taken and is going to get another Will Smith (of hopefully good ...), Duel ... E 'was also the author of the television episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
The film is often shown on television, but I wanted a moment to emphasize the importance and originality of the title.
Little Jake has special powers ... it seems able to speak with the dead and sees things that others can not. The father Tom is a young man disappointed by life and not satisfied, apparently an ordinary person. After a hypnotic session, something changes in him and begins to see and hear strange things ...
The plot may at first suggest The Sixth Sense, M. Night overrated film of the phantom Shyamalan. Often, this film was pulled over and place in the wake of the movie with Bruce Willis. But in reality the two films are of the same year and, although starting from a given municipality, then diverge to different shores.
While Shyamalan's film is built around the final effect, however, anticipated by a growing tension, that of the unknown Koepp is built on doubt, on anxiety research. The story centers on the child than the father trying to unravel the tangle of his visions, facing a new gift for the first time. The film sometimes gets stuck, but has the advantage of often fill the viewer in doubt, provide clues and ideas and then not fully explained, but they're standing, something increasingly rare nowadays. Of note also a clever use of special effects, really well done and refined. The film is based partly thanks to the interpretation of Bacon, always ready to sacrifice the story that plays every now and scored substantial points of his filmography ( Tremors, Mystic River, The Woodsman ). Koepp has rejected the less successful Secret Window.
Some memorable sequences: the scene of hypnosis, with images of the cinema / theater, the visions of Bacon and a shift in the other dimension, the final scene ...
last note. Behind a great movie, there is often a great writer ... It is not always true, but in this case. The story is in fact taken from a story by the great Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers still living, the acknowledged master Stephen King. Matheson is unknown to most, but in reality is the author of I Am Legend , from which various versions have been taken and is going to get another Will Smith (of hopefully good ...), Duel ... E 'was also the author of the television episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
