#105

A woman pursued down a dark street by a man, and caught, wakes from the situation to find herself in a room with some catatonic types. On the wall is a monitor, where she can see...herself. It's body switch tag. Some sort of evil entity is taking control of a succession of bodies, (which it can accomplish with a touch), being sure to carry a Cellphone Of Significance with them each time. It leaves the real owner of the body seemingly, er, body-dead when it moves on, and consigns their uh - soul? inner-being? lifeforce? - to what seems to be an eternity of imprisonment in the mysterious monitor room. A number clocks up each time the body switch happens, and we see that woman from the start is number 105 - evidently this has been going on for a while (I'm not sure where the 100 or so other people are in the room though...maybe it can only hold so many at the time.) And then...the cycle continues. (Forever?) Watching this film was for me a lot like watching the entire series of "Lost" - something was going on, it seemed intriguing, and I desperately wanted to know what it was; but I never got to find out. For example, that the Cellphone of Significance was significant, it was clear - but exactly what that significance was I never discerned. Possibly I missed something, although there's also an equal likelihood that I was just too stupid...the film seemed fairly sort of plotless, for example, but then perhaps that was the idea all along? I'm just not sure because this film was an ENIGMA. Like any decent mystery though, it was very atmospheric, with an uneasy and eerie tone that kept one intrigued all the way through. Well-made and an original take on the Body Switch genre as well.

I thought this film was very well done for a body switch movie. I loved the idea of the room with the tv that the body switched people found themselves in and the mysteriousness that it created. It was acted well and ran smoothly. I was kept interested trying to work out what was going on. Good job.

* Reviewed from the screening room. Interesting take on the body switch, quite a simple approach but very effective. I watched the film twice and think I understood it better the second time around. I feel its a film the more times you watch it the more you can read or appear to read into it. The film for most of it was well shot and I felt the sound was very effective in adding to the suspense to the plot. I like the overall idea of the film, the use of the computer, the death touch etc. It was a solid film even if it was a little hard to decipher, but maybe that was the intention of the film. Nice to see something a little different that made the viewer wanting to know how is it going to end.

A woman pursued down a dark street by a man, and caught, wakes from the situation to find herself in a room with some catatonic types. On the wall is a monitor, where she can see...herself. It's body switch tag. Some sort of evil entity is taking control of a succession of bodies, (which it can accomplish with a touch), being sure to carry a Cellphone Of Significance with them each time. It leaves the real owner of the body seemingly, er, body-dead when it moves on, and consigns their uh - soul? inner-being? lifeforce? - to what seems to be an eternity of imprisonment in the mysterious monitor room. A number clocks up each time the body switch happens, and we see that woman from the start is number 105 - evidently this has been going on for a while (I'm not sure where the 100 or so other people are in the room though...maybe it can only hold so many at the time.) And then...the cycle continues. (Forever?) Watching this film was for me a lot like watching the entire series of "Lost" - something was going on, it seemed intriguing, and I desperately wanted to know what it was; but I never got to find out. For example, that the Cellphone of Significance was significant, it was clear - but exactly what that significance was I never discerned. Possibly I missed something, although there's also an equal likelihood that I was just too stupid...the film seemed fairly sort of plotless, for example, but then perhaps that was the idea all along? I'm just not sure because this film was an ENIGMA. Like any decent mystery though, it was very atmospheric, with an uneasy and eerie tone that kept one intrigued all the way through. Well-made and an original take on the Body Switch genre as well.