film: Phone Booth

Phone Booth

Spoiler below.





So in the end, when Kiefer Sutherland comes up to the ambulance after Colin Farrel gets an injection of a morphine or some narcotic, he is too inebriated to yell out that the killer is right there? Bullshit, anyone here who has done an opiate, before, even something like morphine, is not going to be incapacitated by it! This just really pissed me off. Thoughts?

im just pissed off kiefer even showed his face.
i thought it would be stronger without that part.

I thought it could happen. Maybe not just because of the drug, but also remember that Colin Farrel had been shot and probably had some blood loss. So it was believable to me.

i believed it.

good movie btw.

I dsilike this movie, simply because I felt that there was a serious lack in motive. I understand why the guy hit the other targets, but I thought Colin Farrel's character was just too stupid to bother with.

I don't think he could be absolutely sure in his bewildered state, and in any case that really wasn't the point, I thought- ie. what drugs he was sedated with. I quite liked this film for many reasons, and remain indifferent to Kiefer Sutherland showing his face. I was just wondering that did anyone, at any point, feel sympathy for the guy in the phone booth? I mean, other than the slain pizza delivery guy, there really are no innocent victims in this film. I don't really have any problem with the tactics used by the "villain" (Kiefer), as the protagonist was quite an unlikeable character, and in my opinion, he deserved it.

i liked it. i dont think it deserves any awards of anything. the plot and everything seemed like it came out of no where, things just happened so fast.

I agree that morphine or whatever drug they gave him probably wouldn't have made him that inebriated that he could not make out the face or yell for help.
About a month ago I was seriously burned and was rushed to the hospital and the ambulance guy gave me 25 ml of morphine (he was really nice and he said just keep asking and he'd give me more) and I was totally awake and aware of everything going on.

SardonicNihilist said:

I don't think he could be absolutely sure in his bewildered state, and in any case that really wasn't the point, I thought- ie. what drugs he was sedated with. I quite liked this film for many reasons, and remain indifferent to Kiefer Sutherland showing his face. I was just wondering that did anyone, at any point, feel sympathy for the guy in the phone booth? I mean, other than the slain pizza delivery guy, there really are no innocent victims in this film. I don't really have any problem with the tactics used by the "villain" (Kiefer), as the protagonist was quite an unlikeable character, and in my opinion, he deserved it.

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Umm...I don't know; I don't think somebody deserves to die because he cheats on his wife and lies to the people around him....he certainly had something coming to him, but I don't think it was death....

It takes me forever to see movies, seriously...I only saw this on dvd yesterday. I really liked it though. I wouldn't classify it as the best film I've ever seen or anything, but it kept my attention for the whole way through. And I did sympathise with Stu, because as he said himself--there are a lot greater evils in the world than what he was doing, he was just unlucky for having been chosen by the shooter.

It makes the same point that SAW did too, but makes that point a lot better IMO. Nobody's perfect, but as a culture we've come to embrace greed and self-centredness as positive attributes. Stu was where he was in life because he was so good at fucking people around. All the time characters in the film were trying to help him, we never once saw anybody other than the shooter actually condemn his behaviour. I wouldn't expect them to do it to his face given the circumstances, but it's kind of interesting that nobody was seen whispering amongst themselves about what an asshole he was after he made his big speech. It was like nobody could conceive that he should have to pay for having used so many people, because in the world in which we live, that's not really so big a crime.

I also liked the split screen technique used to show multiple things happening simultaneously. I think it was used a lot better in this film than I've seen in others.

Oh, and Colin Farrell is hot. When you have to spend the majority of a movie looking at one person, that kind of helps.

The movie sucked, and an injection of morphine to your bloodstream will turn most anyone into a mumbling idiot. I have had to have a few morphine shots in the hospital and those motherfuckers took me OUT! Communication ? hah, I could barely remember I was in the hospital...

I saw it once and was vaguely entertained... not really though... and then had to sit through it again one christmas as a sibling had received it on dvd so we watched it... I must say it definitely gets worse the 2nd time around... pretty average at best.

CB.

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Shit movie. Not even slightly interesting or believable, but at least there was character development in this film. But you should hope so, considering there was practically only one face on display for the entire movie.