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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
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Film: I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Category: Thriller/Fantasy/Suspense/Drama
Rated R
Summary:
A college girl named Audrey got kidnapped by a demented serial killer who had killed one of her classmates weeks before her disappearance. Audrey’s hand and leg were amputated and left on the cold road to die. After she was luckily rescued by a local she woke up as Dakota Moss. Dakota Moss claimed she had nothing to do with Audrey nor her family. And that she was from a lower class family, was a stripper and had a mother who died of a drug overdose. Her descriptions of herself was quite the opposite of what Audrey’s life was like. Was this girl who got rescued not Audrey as she claimed or Dakota Moss was just one of her altered ego?
Review:
This movie followed the style of a horror erotica film of the 70s. Such as the colours that was used in between the scenes, the structure of the film and the way people responded to each other in the film was quite the style of the early 70s artistic films. It wasn’t a horror movie or anything that the advertisements had promoted on television. I understand the reasons why this film wasn’t popular among the general public. This movie was artistic, suspenseful and at times grotesques.
The storyline of this film was not an ordinary one; it wasn’t commercialized or unadorned. In fact this film was almost like a writer narrative her story while she types on her type writer. Audrey, the main character in this film was a writer in reality who wrote herself in her own story about her imagery twin sister who had separated from her since birth. Dakota Moss, the main heroine in her story had the opposite life from her own. Dakota Moss was a stripper who had a drug addict as a mother who tragically died of a drug overdose. While Audrey, (assumedly her other self in an altered reality) had an extremely different life. Audrey was a talented college student who was happy, had perfect grades, perfect parents and lived in a luxury house.
Every story has a climax, dilemma and resolution and it usually includes a hero or heroine to resolve the dilemma or die solving it. The dilemma in this story within a story was quite austere. In the story Audrey was a devoted writer who happened to be a talented piano player. But due to her interest in writing ; she gave up piano playing and disappointed her music teacher who believed deeply in her talents. What’s the most important organs or parts of a writer? HIS/HER HAND/HANDS.
Not long after she quitted her piano playing she got kidnapped by a demented killer who amputated one of her hands and legs. To a writer this had to be the most devastating event compared to death of a human soul and body. The human brain has different ways to deal with pain and tragic events; and one of most common way that the human brain deals with trauma was to develop an alter ego for the victim to deal with their losses and sanities. So, assumedly Audrey developed one claiming she wasn‘t Audrey and in fact was her twin sister Dakota Moss.
Everything in this movie made sense in an “acid trip” or “psychedelics ride” kind of way. The part where the film gave away that the whole film wasn’t reality and in fact a story which Audrey was writing or written was that Dakota Moss wasn’t lying. In fact she was Audrey ‘s twin sister who got separated since birth. At the end Dakota Moss followed the voice in her head and went to a place to dig Audrey out of the grave where the killer had buried her.
The reason I gave away the end of this film was because this it was widely misunderstood by the general audiences and Lindsay Lohan’s appalling acting wasn’t a helping tool to increase the advantage of this film. I shall let you audience find out who the killer was; although it was extremely obvious.
Rated 4 Stars
*This film is not for everyone; audience who likes “Let’s Scare Jessica To Death” and other self narrative/erotica suspense movie would find this intriguing.”
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