Visitors
by Richard Franklin
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Actor: Dominic Purcell, Radha Mitchell, Ray Barrett, Susannah York, Tottie GoldsmithDirector: Richard Franklin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
Movie Reviews of Visitors
Movie Review: A fine little psychological thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
It's interesting that so many reviews of this film rate it poorly. Whilst I'd not give it 5 stars, it's certainly worth 4. The script is fine, the acting good, the direction and production OK - what's not to like?
I guess a lot of the people who don't "get" this film were either expecting something quite different, or else they are not sailors. The general plot has been covered here several times so I won't repeat it again at length - it is a simple situational thriller in which a lone sailor, becalmed in the Indian Ocean, begins to experience vivid hallucinations. These are at least partly in reaction to the death of both her parents whilst her round the world single-handed attempt was under way.
Were the "visitors" real? No, of course not - they are all complete fantasies. Lone sailors frequently experience vivid, lucid hallucinations during long voyages. Watch "Deep Water", the recent bio-pic about the Golden Globe trophy in 1968, to get a taste of this in real life. One competitor went totally nuts and jumped overboard after craeting an elabourate hoax regarding his position - another saw and talked to Bing Crosby whilst in the middle of the Atlantic! It's old news.
What made the film gripping for me was the realization that, isolated as she was, her own mind was her greatest enemy. At one point she jumps overboard to escape imaginary pirates, and only comes back to her senses once on board again. That's REAL terror - the knowledge that in an isolated and totally self-sufficient environment, you may do yourself or your only means of survival real damage during an hallucination. The one person you can absolutely trust, yourself, is suddenly someone to be feared. Truly terrifying, more so than any ghost story.
The end is excellent. Having internalised the death of her parents, and with her boyfriend no longer faithful and her sponsor for the race backing out, she does the best thing possible - gives them all the finger and sails on to new horizons.
Summary of Visitors
After six month at sea on a solo trip around the world, Georgia Perry?s 44-foot sail boat sits idle with no wind in her sails for several days. Cabin fever sets in and the border between fact and fantasy begins to trickle away. Are uninvited visitors bordering the vessel, or is her mind deceiving her? But if these are just tricks in her imagination, how do these ghostly encounters leave Georgia with bruises? If the visitors are real, is there a bigger danger??Art House & International DVD Video
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