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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Creator/VinceVaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s "Losing My Religion."
J-Lo plays a child psychiatrist named Catherine Deane who is pioneering a revolutionary technology that allows her to [[MentalWorld enter people's minds by rendering them as virtual environments]] so she can converse with their inner selves (this procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). She is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of a coma.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
So Novak and the FBI take Carl to Catherine's clinic, so that she can venture inside his mind and coax his inner-self into telling her where Julia is. Within Carl's mind, Catherine discovers that Carl's neurosis is divided between the innocent and frightened little boy he is at heart and the evil and demon-like king that he is outwardly. She finds herself seeking to defeat the demon and put the child to rest. Eventually she becomes trapped in Carl's mind (turning off the virtual reality machinery would kill her) and Novak goes in after her. There he sets her free, and discovers the clue to where Julia is. While he goes off to rescue her, Catherine brings Carl into her mind so she can slay the demon, but can't kill him without killing Carl entirely.
All this is interspersed with a bucket-load of seemingly random imagery that alternates between DesignStudentsOrgasm, {{Fetish}}, {{Gorn}}, NightmareFuel, MindScrew[=/=]TrueArtIsIncomprehensible and {{Squick}} (though usually some combination thereof). This includes but is not limited to:
* In the opening scene, J-Lo riding across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounting, ascending a sand dune a small bit, then looking back on her horse which has turned into a chess piece, then approaching a ruined boat half-buried in the sand next to a dead tree, and briefly talking to a boy who then suddenly turns into a werewolf-like creature.
* A horse standing in a room, then a wall-clock ticking backwards and upon reaching the end a set of glass panes coming down and severing the horse, sushi-style, into several neat pieces that remain suspending in mid-air within the glass; only with the horse not dying and still being alive with the separated chunks of its lungs still breathing and its ears still twitching.
* A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in a series of grotesque, sadomasochistic, sexual poses whilst they moan and groan in pleasure/pain; including one in a dentist's chair, a ballerina, and a giant, rubbery-looking female bodybuilder with no nipples.
* A demon-like version of Carl with two giant purple sheets of cloth attached to the rings in his back and wound around the walls of his throne room.
* Three doppelgangers of Carl's mother frozen, staring up at the sky and then in sequence turning to look at Novak and reciting a message about Carl before turning back to stare at the sky again.
* Novak being shackled down, having a hole cut in his stomach and having his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie whilst a vulture caws nearby.
* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers counsel to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
None of this is given a great deal of exposition regarding what it all means. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Some critics have espoused that none of it honestly means anything and is in the movie solely to look pretty]].
J-Lo plays a child psychiatrist named Catherine Deane who is pioneering a revolutionary technology that allows her to [[MentalWorld enter people's minds by rendering them as virtual environments]] so she can converse with their inner selves (this procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). She is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of a coma.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
So Novak and the FBI take Carl to Catherine's clinic, so that she can venture inside his mind and coax his inner-self into telling her where Julia is. Within Carl's mind, Catherine discovers that Carl's neurosis is divided between the innocent and frightened little boy he is at heart and the evil and demon-like king that he is outwardly. She finds herself seeking to defeat the demon and put the child to rest. Eventually she becomes trapped in Carl's mind (turning off the virtual reality machinery would kill her) and Novak goes in after her. There he sets her free, and discovers the clue to where Julia is. While he goes off to rescue her, Catherine brings Carl into her mind so she can slay the demon, but can't kill him without killing Carl entirely.
All this is interspersed with a bucket-load of seemingly random imagery that alternates between DesignStudentsOrgasm, {{Fetish}}, {{Gorn}}, NightmareFuel, MindScrew[=/=]TrueArtIsIncomprehensible and {{Squick}} (though usually some combination thereof). This includes but is not limited to:
* In the opening scene, J-Lo riding across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounting, ascending a sand dune a small bit, then looking back on her horse which has turned into a chess piece, then approaching a ruined boat half-buried in the sand next to a dead tree, and briefly talking to a boy who then suddenly turns into a werewolf-like creature.
* A horse standing in a room, then a wall-clock ticking backwards and upon reaching the end a set of glass panes coming down and severing the horse, sushi-style, into several neat pieces that remain suspending in mid-air within the glass; only with the horse not dying and still being alive with the separated chunks of its lungs still breathing and its ears still twitching.
* A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in a series of grotesque, sadomasochistic, sexual poses whilst they moan and groan in pleasure/pain; including one in a dentist's chair, a ballerina, and a giant, rubbery-looking female bodybuilder with no nipples.
* A demon-like version of Carl with two giant purple sheets of cloth attached to the rings in his back and wound around the walls of his throne room.
* Three doppelgangers of Carl's mother frozen, staring up at the sky and then in sequence turning to look at Novak and reciting a message about Carl before turning back to stare at the sky again.
* Novak being shackled down, having a hole cut in his stomach and having his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie whilst a vulture caws nearby.
* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers counsel to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
None of this is given a great deal of exposition regarding what it all means. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Some critics have espoused that none of it honestly means anything and is in the movie solely to look pretty]].
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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Creator/VinceVaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of previously directed music videos, videos such as Music/{{REM}}'s "Losing My Religion."
J-Loplays is a child psychiatrist named Catherine Deane who is pioneering a revolutionary technology that device which allows her to [[MentalWorld [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind enter people's minds by rendering them as virtual environments]] so she can converse with their inner selves (this procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning environments]]. Vaughn plays a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). She Detective who is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of a coma.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller namedhunting Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get (D'Onofrio), a {{serial killer}} with a habit of drowning his rocks off, victims in an elaborate {{death trap}}. Just when Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him apprehended at his house, Carl [[ConvenientComa he falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could coma]]. He cannot be questioned regarding as to the whereabouts of the farm where Julia his latest victim, who is soon due to be drowned.
So Novak and the FBI take Carl is wheeled to Catherine's clinic, clinic so that she can venture inside his mind and coax his inner-self inner self into telling her where Julia is. Within Carl's mind, spilling the girl's location. Catherine discovers learns that Carl's neurosis mind is divided split between the innocent and frightened little traumatized boy he is at heart and the evil and demon-like king that [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon-king]] he is outwardly. She finds herself seeking to defeat the demon and put the child to rest. Eventually Eventually, she becomes trapped in Carl's mind (turning off mind, and the virtual reality machinery would kill her) and Novak Detective goes in after her. There he sets her free, and discovers the clue to where Julia is. While he goes off to rescue her, Catherine brings Carl into her mind so she can slay as [[YourMindMakesItReal turning off the demon, but can't VR machine would kill him without killing Carl entirely.
her.]]
All this is interspersed witha bucket-load of [[DesignStudentsOrgasm seemingly random imagery that alternates between DesignStudentsOrgasm, {{Fetish}}, {{Gorn}}, NightmareFuel, MindScrew[=/=]TrueArtIsIncomprehensible and {{Squick}} (though usually some combination thereof). This includes but is not limited to:
* In the opening scene, J-Lo riding across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounting, ascending a sand dune a small bit, then looking back on her horse which has turned into a chess piece, then approaching a ruined boat half-buried in the sand next to a dead tree, and briefly talking to a boy who then suddenly turns into a werewolf-like creature.
* A horse standing in a room, then a wall-clock ticking backwards and upon reaching the end a set of glass panes coming down and severing the horse, sushi-style, into several neat pieces that remain suspending in mid-air within the glass; only with the horse not dying and still being alive with the separated chunks of its lungs still breathing and its ears still twitching.
* A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in a series of grotesque, sadomasochistic, sexual poses whilst they moan and groan in pleasure/pain; including one in a dentist's chair, a ballerina, and a giant, rubbery-looking female bodybuilder with no nipples.
* A demon-like version of Carl with two giant purple sheets of cloth attached to the rings in his back and wound around the walls of his throne room.
* Three doppelgangers of Carl's mother frozen, staring up at the sky and then in sequence turning to look at Novak and reciting a message about Carl before turning back to stare at the sky again.
* Novak being shackled down, having a hole cut in his stomach and having his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie whilst a vulture caws nearby.
* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers counsel to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
imagery]], None of this is given a great deal of exposition regarding what it all means. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Some critics have espoused that none of it honestly means anything and is in the movie solely to look pretty]].
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Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named
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* In the opening scene, J-Lo riding across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounting, ascending a sand dune a small bit, then looking back on her horse which has turned into a chess piece, then approaching a ruined boat half-buried in the sand next to a dead tree, and briefly talking to a boy who then suddenly turns into a werewolf-like creature.
* A horse standing in a room, then a wall-clock ticking backwards and upon reaching the end a set of glass panes coming down and severing the horse, sushi-style, into several neat pieces that remain suspending in mid-air within the glass; only with the horse not dying and still being alive with the separated chunks of its lungs still breathing and its ears still twitching.
* A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in a series of grotesque, sadomasochistic, sexual poses whilst they moan and groan in pleasure/pain; including one in a dentist's chair, a ballerina, and a giant, rubbery-looking female bodybuilder with no nipples.
* A demon-like version of Carl with two giant purple sheets of cloth attached to the rings in his back and wound around the walls of his throne room.
* Three doppelgangers of Carl's mother frozen, staring up at the sky and then in sequence turning to look at Novak and reciting a message about Carl before turning back to stare at the sky again.
* Novak being shackled down, having a hole cut in his stomach and having his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie whilst a vulture caws nearby.
* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers counsel to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
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* AbusiveParents: Carl was abused by his father, which gives Catherine some sympathy for him. Novak (and some irritated critics) claims that it would take more than a father who hit him to make Carl do the things he did. Note that the split personality is part of the disease, and the same thing is happening to Catherine's other patient.
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* AbusiveParents: FreudianExcuse: Carl was abused by his father, father. We lso see yhree doppelgangers of Carl's mother frozen, staring up at the sky and then in sequence turning to look at Novak and reciting a message about Carl before turning back to stare at the sky again.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The VR device. This procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). When the film begins, she is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of his coma.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: In the opening scene in the com apatent's mind, J-Lo horseback rides across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounts, then looking back on her horse whichgives has turned into a chess piece. In Carl's mind, Catherine some sympathy for him. Novak (and some irritated critics) claims is greeted by a horse standing in a room. A set of glass panes crashes down and severs the horse, sushi-style, into several neat pieces that it would take more than a father who hit him remain suspended in mid-air within the glass, with the separated chunks of its lungs still breathing and its ears still twitching.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Catherine r-ewires the machine tomake bring Carl do into her mind so they can slay the things he did. Note that demon, but she can't kill it without killing Carl entirely.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Catherine seeks to defeat thesplit personality is part of demon and put the disease, and the same thing is happening child to Catherine's other patient.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The VR device. This procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). When the film begins, she is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of his coma.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: In the opening scene in the com apatent's mind, J-Lo horseback rides across the Namibian desert in a white feathered dress, dismounts, then looking back on her horse which
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Catherine r-ewires the machine to
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Catherine seeks to defeat the
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* BondageIsBad: Subtle, but particularly reinforced in the menagerie scene; every woman in a scene shown is a real life fetish people have and do with consent.
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* BondageIsBad: Subtle, but particularly reinforced BondageIsBad:
** Carl bleaches his victims' so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings inthe menagerie scene; every woman his back and masturbates.
** A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in ascene shown is a real life fetish people have series of grotesque, sadomasochistic, sexual poses whilst they moan and do groan in pleasure/pain; including one in a dentist's chair, a ballerina, and a giant, rubbery-looking female bodybuilder with consent.no nipples.
** Carl bleaches his victims' so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in
** A collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes behind glass panels, attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in a
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm. There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown.
* DistressedDune: Catherine's attempt to re-awaken the coma patient fails, and he suddenly turns into a werewolf-like creature.
* EveryoneIsJesusIsPurgatory: A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers counsel to the 'good' side of Carl. King Stargher emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turns into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to drown the young Carl.
* GuttedLikeAFish: Novak being shackled down, having a hole cut in his stomach and having his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie whilst a vulture caws nearby.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The central premise of the film, with Catherine and Novak entering Stargher's mindscape to find the location of his last victim.
* PurpleIsPowerful: A demon-like version of Carl with two giant purple sheets of cloth attached to the rings in his back and wound around the walls of his throne room.
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* SoapOperaDisease: Carl's split personality is part of his disease. The same thing is happening to Catherine's other patient.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Carl is still in police custody when Catherine gives him a MercyKill. While the FBI probably could never hope to prosecute a hero who killed someone in his dreams, they don't even seem to notice what she did.
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* FanService: When Catherine bends over to root around her fridge, the camera focuses on her ass.
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* GirlInABox: Imagery of this calibre is used extensively throughout the movie.
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* GirlInABox: Imagery of this calibre caliber is used extensively throughout the movie.
* MsFanservice: When Catherine bends over to root around her fridge, the camera focuses on her ass (she's wearing only a short dressing gown and thong at the time).
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* PoliceAreUseless: Not only do the cops wait to storm Carl's home until ''after'' he's suffered the neural glitch that puts him in a coma, but [[spoiler: it takes a series of scifi MentalWorld journeys to call their attention to a manufacturer's logo that was right there on the real-world evidence all along]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: Not only do the cops wait to storm Carl's home until ''after'' he's suffered the neural glitch that puts him in a coma, but [[spoiler: it takes a series of scifi sci fi MentalWorld journeys to call their attention to a manufacturer's logo that was right there on the real-world evidence all along]].
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** The sliced-up horse is a reference to a sculpture by Damien Hirst
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Battle in the center of the mind
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* WomanInWhite: J-Lo in the opening scene.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's a serial killer movie. This trope is pretty much a given. The best part is that [[spoiler:(part of) Carl himself considers it bullshit, and simply wants to die so as not to hurt anyone else. Catherine grants his wish]].
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* FreudianExcuse: It's a serial killer movie. This trope is pretty much a given. The best part is that [[spoiler:(part of) Carl himself [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse considers it bullshit, bullshit]], and simply wants to die so as not to hurt anyone else. Catherine grants his wish]].
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* ShirtlessScene: Vincent/Carl gets a bunch.
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* ShirtlessScene: Vincent/Carl gets a bunch. But unlike most examples of this trope, it's ''not'' played for fanservice.
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* MemoryPalace: Carl Stargher's mind is portrayed as a dark, twisted maze. One section is a rotting house that contains memories of his abusive childhood. He also stores the memory of his first murder there.
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An InNameOnly DirectToDVD sequel was released in 2009.
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An InNameOnly DirectToDVD sequel was released in 2009. The film is also notable as the last English-language film released on Laserdisc.
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Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Geez... talk about RuleThirtyFour. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
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Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Geez... talk about RuleThirtyFour. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
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* NonSequiturEnvironment: The various dream environments often lack basic logical connections: a blanket gradually transitions into the dunes of a desert; the control room is suddenly replaced by a cage; a beach ends suddenly in a doorway back into the corridors of a palace; Catherine hides in a closet, only to turn around and find that there's now a room behind her - more specifically, one where Carl Stargher is butchering his first victim.
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Overly opinionated and unnecessary. Remember, this isn't a YMMV page.
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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Vince Vaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s "Losing My Religion."
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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Vince Vaughn.Creator/VinceVaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s "Losing My Religion."
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* FemmeFatale: When Carl has corrupted Catherine, she becomes dressed in a black lace nightgown with a red collar, thereby evoking a black widow spider (see FetishFuel, below); when Novak enters Carl's mind, she distracts him with a kiss whilst Carl incapacitates him.
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* FemmeFatale: When Carl has corrupted Catherine, she becomes dressed in a black lace nightgown with a red collar, thereby evoking a black widow spider (see FetishFuel, below); spider; when Novak enters Carl's mind, she distracts him with a kiss whilst Carl incapacitates him.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: Carl has one, but it only appears twice (briefly), and is never really commented on. It includes medical charts, photographs, sketches and the like.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Stargher's last victim is held in a mechanism that will drown her after a certain period of time has elapsed, putting pressure on law enforcement to rescue her in time. The film occasionally cuts back to show rising water levels in her cell.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: RaceAgainstTheClock / RisingWaterRisingTension: Stargher's last victim is held in a mechanism that will drown her after a certain period of time has elapsed, putting pressure on law enforcement to rescue her in time. The film occasionally cuts back to show rising water levels in her cell.
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* LivingDollCollector: ''[[{{Squick}} Ohhhhhhhhhhhh boooooooy...]]''
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* LivingDollCollector: ''[[{{Squick}} Ohhhhhhhhhhhh boooooooy...]]''Carl's mental world includes these, made out of his past victims.
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* MentalWorld: Also obviously.
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* MentalWorld: Also obviously.The premise is going into a serial killer's mental world to get information on his kidnapped victim.
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->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOqiSipew We're giving you fair warning, its pretentiously boring.]]"
->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOqiSipew We're giving you fair warning, its pretentiously boring.]]"
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** At one point, Catherine gets trapped in a closet and is forced to watch Carl get abused by his father. It's shot to look almost exactly like a similar scene in BlueVelvet.
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** At one point, Catherine gets trapped in a closet and is forced to watch Carl get abused by his father. It's shot to look almost exactly like a similar scene in BlueVelvet.''Film/BlueVelvet''.
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* BondageIsBad: Subtle, but particularly reinforced in the menagerie scene; every woman in a scene shown is a real life fetish people have and do with consent.
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* YouHave48Hours: The detectives had 40 hours before Julia drowned.
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** Carl's mother doppelgangers are a reference to a painting Music/DavidBowie has in his house.
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** The scene of the three identical women frozen in what looks like a scream is a shout out to the painting [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/susancloud/dawn.jpg?t=1244085062 Dawn]] by Odd Nerdrum.
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** The scene of the three identical women frozen in what looks like a scream is a shout out to the painting [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/susancloud/dawn.jpg?t=1244085062 [[http://fineartamerica.com/featured/dawn-odd-nerdrum.html Dawn]] by Odd Nerdrum.
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* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers consul to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
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* A room resembling a Roman temple with an albino peacock, where Catherine appears dressed as the Virgin Mary and offers consul counsel to the little boy Carl, and then the room turning dark and worms and a tarantula appearing on young Carl as the evil Carl emerges from a pool of water, and Catherine turning into a warrior princess to battle him, and then back into the Madonna and using a baptism pool to MercyKill the young Carl.
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J-Lo plays a child psychiatrist named Catherine Deane who is pioneering a revolutionary technology that allows her to [[MentalWorld enter people's minds by rendering them as virtual environments]] so she can converse with their inner-selves (this procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). She is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of a coma.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blonde women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Geez... talk about RuleThirtyFour. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young, blonde women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Geez... talk about RuleThirtyFour. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
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J-Lo plays a child psychiatrist named Catherine Deane who is pioneering a revolutionary technology that allows her to [[MentalWorld enter people's minds by rendering them as virtual environments]] so she can converse with their inner-selves inner selves (this procedure consists, in case you were wondering, of donning a red rubber suit that looks as though it's made of strawberry twizzlers, having a cloth made of computer circuitry draped over one's face and being suspended from the ceiling by wires). She is currently using this technology to try and coax a boy with a unique form of schizophrenia out of a coma.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young,blonde blond women and takes them to an abandoned farm (the whereabouts of which is unknown to the other characters). There, he places them in a glass tank wherein over the course of a few hours a shower periodically sprays water on them briefly but then stops, but eventually starts and doesn't stop until the tank is filled and they drown. Carl comes back, takes the bodies out, and then bleaches them so they resemble dolls and puts collars around their necks. He then suspends himself above them via chains attached to piercings in his back and masturbates. Geez... talk about RuleThirtyFour. Carl has just abducted his seventh victim, Julia, and this procedure has begun again. Vaughn plays detective Peter Novak who has been tracking Carl for some time, but just as they finally apprehend him at his house, Carl falls into an irreversible coma on account of his form of schizophrenia... before he could be questioned regarding the whereabouts of the farm where Julia is soon to be drowned.
Meanwhile, there is a SerialKiller named Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio) on the loose. In order to get his rocks off, Carl abducts young,
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Stargher's last victim is held in a mechanism that will drown her after a certain period of time has elapsed, putting pressure on law enforcement to rescue her in time. The film occasionally cuts back to show rising water levels in her cell.
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* TickingClock: Stargher's last victim is held in a mechanism that will drown her after a certain period of time has elapsed, putting pressure on law enforcement to rescue her in time. The film occasionally cuts back to show rising water levels in her cell.
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* FanService: See MaleGaze, below.
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* FanService: See MaleGaze, below.When Catherine bends over to root around her fridge, the camera focuses on her ass.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Obviously.The central premise of the film, with Catherine and Novak entering Stargher's mindscape to find the location of his last victim.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: As WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic points out, Carl is still in police custody when Catherine gives him a MercyKill, yet the FBI let her go without a hitch.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: As WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic points out, Carl is still in police custody when Catherine gives him a MercyKill, yet MercyKill. While the FBI let her go without probably could never hope to prosecute a hitch.hero who killed someone in his dreams, they don't even seem to notice what she did.
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* CleanCut: That poor, poor horse. Or was it? It didn't appear to actually die... [[FateWorseThanDeath That poor, poor horse!]]
* CostumePorn
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* CleanCut: That poor, poor horse. Or was it? It didn't appear A horse is cleanly cut into a number of pieces by glass panels, which are then separated. Due to actually die... [[FateWorseThanDeath That poor, poor horse!]]
dream logic, the horse is still alive, just with spaces in between its sections.
*CostumePornCostumePorn: The dream world runs on gorgeous, intricate and highly symbolic costumes.
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* ShoutOut: Many scenes in the movie are homages to various real-life works of art. The aforementioned sliced-up horse scene and the Carl's mother doppelgangers are homages to a sculpture by Damien Hirst and a painting [[Music/DavidBowie one of Tarsem's friends]] has in their house, respectively.
** Carl's victims are also found on a riverbed, [[TwinPeaks dead, wrapped in plastic]]. And before Carl is captured, he sings "Marsie Dotes", which Leland sang in the second season.
** Carl's victims are also found on a riverbed, [[TwinPeaks dead, wrapped in plastic]]. And before Carl is captured, he sings "Marsie Dotes", which Leland sang in the second season.
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* ShoutOut: Many scenes in the movie are homages to various real-life works of art.
** Theaforementioned sliced-up horse scene and the is a reference to a sculpture by Damien Hirst
** Carl's mother doppelgangers arehomages a reference to a sculpture by Damien Hirst and a painting [[Music/DavidBowie one of Tarsem's friends]] Music/DavidBowie has in their house, respectively.
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** Carl's victims are also found on a riverbed,[[TwinPeaks [[Series/TwinPeaks dead, wrapped in plastic]]. And before Carl is captured, he sings "Marsie Dotes", which Leland sang in the second season.
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** Carl's mother doppelgangers are
** Carl's victims are also found on a riverbed,
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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Vince Vaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s ''Losing My Religion''. Said background certainly shows in the movie...
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''The Cell'' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Vince Vaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s ''Losing "Losing My Religion''. Said background certainly shows in the movie...
Religion."
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* StrawmanPolitical: Notably averted. The film seems to disagree with Novak's views on the FreudianExcuse, but still treats his view (and any audience members who share said view) with respect.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Notably averted. The film seems to disagree with Novak's views on the FreudianExcuse, but still treats his view (and any audience members who share said this view) with respect.
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* ShoutOut: Many scenes in the movie are homages to various real-life works of art. The aforementioned sliced-up horse scene and the Carl's mother doppelgangers are homages to a sculpture by Damien Hirst and a painting [[DavidBowie one of Tarsem's friends]] has in their house, respectively.
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* ShoutOut: Many scenes in the movie are homages to various real-life works of art. The aforementioned sliced-up horse scene and the Carl's mother doppelgangers are homages to a sculpture by Damien Hirst and a painting [[DavidBowie [[Music/DavidBowie one of Tarsem's friends]] has in their house, respectively.
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* DreamIntro: In opening scene the protagonist is riding a horse in a desert; the horse turns into a statue. The scene is revealed to be a child's dream which the protagonist (a child psychiatrist) has entered using a new technology.
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'''''The Cell''''' is a 2000 psychological-thriller/horror with some sci-fi elements directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Music/JenniferLopez, [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] and Vince Vaughn. It is Tarsem's feature-length film debut; he formerly was a director of music videos, such as Music/{{REM}}'s ''Losing My Religion''. Said background certainly shows in the movie...
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