Sa medulla oblongata jud diay (sa luyo sa liog, which controls the respiratory rate) dapat pusilon ang mga tawo, in this movie's case a suicide bomber para mamatay unya wa na'y reflexes.
The story is layered enough, at least worthy of the fact that it was produced. Worthy of having the talents of Penn and Kidman, and veteran director Pollack as the movie's governor. Penn's character is kept a question, at least prior to the scene when Kidman explains of how that said faction of Africans will eliminate sorrow. And you see Penn's character arc in the scene near the end with a furious Kidman holding Zuanie (sp?) at bay. But when Kidman forces Zuanie to read the beginning of the hardbound book, words the African leader "once believed", it is a rather touching scene to see that Kidman's "blind fury", as her character might have called it didn't escalate to a hundred per cent. And she still had those morales of her convictions to the earlier exchange between her and Sean Penn in the U.N.
This and many more plants that are payed off. Again, the story is layered enough but I wouldn't call it that "rich". I guess much of the credit may be given to scribe Scott Frank and his company of scribes. As Frank has written some really good motion pictures such as Kenneth Brannagh's DEAD AGAIN in 1992, and ten years after a sci-fi film noir outing that's in my top ten.
Worth watching. Or a rental, if you prefer. James Newton Howard's score is decent, but Howard's talent is usually at it's apex when he does his histrionic music for movies of the same genre. His work in this one will do.
THE INTERPRETER (2005)
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