MOVIE PAPER“THE CELL”

The movie “The Cell” allows you to take a close look at the reality of evil, where it comes from and how it feels, how it takes over an innocent life, and how it lurks as a possibility within each of us. The movie really deals with explaining what is going on inside the killers mind. At times I felt it hard to sympathize with Carl (the serial killer) because of his three distinct entities Carl as a child, a normal adult, and a serial killing monster. The child represented the timid and innocent Carl, the monster is the serial killing side, and the adult represents everything that is left of his normal mind. I would begin to feel bad for Carl, because in the movie we learn that his father psychologically and physically abused him as a child. However, the monster he became was so dominating in the movie, very demonic, and relentless on his drive to kill. The movie goes a step further by incorporating science fiction. The color changes from black and white, the different colored hues,...