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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Michael Clarke DuncanBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Slipstream
Movie Review: Joycean stream of conciousness...
Summary: 5 Stars
...which takes place in the final minutes (or seconds) of a screenwriter's life. This amazing movie documents in stream-of-conciousness manner the merging of a movie script written by one 'Felix Bonhoeffer' (see below why I put quotes) and the reality of an indeterminate period of the writer's life, maybe most of his life. People and places are interchangeable, as are times...it's the final flash of a confused, dying person, just the way we're told that our life flashes before us in our last moments.
A recurring theme throughout the film is the 1950s horror movie, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', an allegorical film which has had many interpretations; the frightening thing about that film was that you would lose your identity, your mind, and your life to creatures that occupy your physical body after you fall asleep. And we all must sleep, sooner or later. The star of the original film, Kevin McCarthy appears in this film, interacting with Felix from time to time.
An amusing in-joke about the director of the film-within-a-film, Gavin, who has a tyrannical film producer for a brother is that the actor who plays Gavin is Gavin Glazer, who happens to have a famous successful producer for a brother, one Brian Glazer. You don't get to be successful in Hollywood by being a sweetheart, no matter what they say to each other at the Academy Awards.
Another interesting point is that Felix Bonhoeffer is probably not his real name - check the book cover on the table in a later scene - if his last name is Bonhoeffer, then his first name's not Felix, or if his first name IS Felix, then he's just lifted the Bonhoeffer name from the book, whose author has a different first name, or maybe he did write the book, or maybe he didn't; maybe he just bought it. ADDENDUM: the Bonhoeffer name is inspired by Dieter Bonhoeffer, who was a German Luther pastor, and an opponent of the Hitler regime. He was hanged in 1945 due to his involvement in an asassination attempt by the Abwehr in 1943. (And I thought I knew my history trivia...). This explains the periodic flashes of images of Hitler.
This movie is masterfully edited and takes you from one surprise to the next in such a way that it needs to be viewed more than once to absorb it all; it's an incredibly complex script. An interview with Hopkins, (who wrote the script and the incidental music) in the special features section makes it clear that this was a personal project, not expected to have great commercial success, and in this, he was correct. According to Box Office Mojo, the worldwide gross for this film was about 27,000 dollars, which must be some kind of record. I hope DVD sales make more - this deserves to be a genuine cult film, and I think it's probably one of the best movies I have seen for many years.
Just the fact that there are wildly different opinions of this movie should provoke the curiosity of those who seek unconventional movie entertainment!
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