Movie review for Ink
This is a strange surreal science fiction movie that follows beings the rest of the world do not see, but are responsible for our dreams and sometimes nightmares.
We first see some flashbacks of a very busy businessman John played by Chris Kelly, who has just recently divorced from his wife, and spending some time with his daughter Emma played by Quinn Hunchar, he at first is reluctant to play her games, saying her mother is much more suited to it than him, but he relinquishes eventually and joins her in fighting the “invisible monster” who has come to kidnap her.
Later on you realise the game was a foretelling of what is about to happen because there is a monster who does come and kidnap her.
In the evening some interesting beings materialise on the street and all go into peoples’ homes, at first you wonder what on earth is happening. Soon after when everybody goes to sleep, and Emma has to appease her grandmother that she is asleep by making some snoring noises, as soon as you see them put their hands on the foreheads of the people whose homes they have come into, and smile, you realise immediately there are responsible for relaxing peaceful dreams, the one responsible for Emma’s peaceful dreams, Allel played by the lovely Jennifer Batter was watching in amusement while Emma pretended to be snoring.
After a short while some other beings materialise (Incubi), and with the ominous mood surrounding them it becomes obvious that they are responsible for nightmares.
A short while a being materialises, and goes into the bedroom of the little girl at the beginning, and places his hand on her forehead, she immediately wakes up, or her unconscious wakes up in her dream state (she is still asleep in the real world), several of the good beings materialise and there is an all out battle, where they all try to stop the monster from taking the girl, apparently during the battle as furniture and equipment is destroyed, they all revert back to their original form and place, in the real world, which makes some sense as all this is going on in the dream world.
The monster takes the girl and as perplexed as we all are to the reasons, we eventually find out that he is a “Drifter” called Ink, someone who has died and is wandering this surreal world without a purpose, and wears a hood to cover his scarred form, hoping to take the girl to the leader of the Incubi in other to be one of them.
Meanwhile the beings responsible for good dreams (Storytellers) have asked the help of a blind “Pathfinder” Jacob played by Jeremy Make; to help them locate the girl where Ink has her, he suggests they go into the real world and find her father, that her father holds the key to saving her life, as apparently in the real world she is now in a coma, and if Ink succeeds in taking her to the leader of the nightmare beings she will die in the real world, so Allel, Gabe played by Eme Ikuakor, and Sara played by Shelby Malone venture into the real world but no one can see neither can they affect any physical thing. Another Storyteller Liev played by the lovely Jessica Duffy locates Ink, and after a short battle Ink takes her prisoner and is planning on taking her along with the girl to the leader of the Incubi.
It is a fascinating science fiction storyline, with a fresh twist on this genre, with an equally gripping suspense throughout.
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Posted By Blogger to Movie reviews on 11/08/2009 06:58:00 AM
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