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Before I Go to Sleep

Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

October. 31,2014
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6.3
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R
| Thriller Mystery

Ever since she sustained a traumatic head injury, Christine Lucas has suffered from anterograde amnesia, unable to form new memories and having forgotten the last 15 years of her life. Every morning, she becomes reacquainted with her husband, Ben, and the other constants in her life. Terrifying truths about her past begin to emerge, causing her to question everything -- and everyone -- around her.

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MamaGravity
2014/10/31

good back-story, and good acting

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Sexyloutak
2014/11/01

Absolutely the worst movie.

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ActuallyGlimmer
2014/11/02

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Jenna Walter
2014/11/03

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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sjw1982
2014/11/04

Brilliantly gripping film with lots of twist and second guessing. The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that the director made a huge error forgetting to explain Claire's role... oops! But decides that it's well worth a watch!

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nhoiyee
2014/11/05

I saw this film without knowing the plot because I like Mark Strong, so I gave it a try. It started out ok for the first 30 minutes, then I started to skip to the scenes with Mark Strong in them as I was rapidly losing interest. The plot has too many holes to be believable or make any sense at all. How could Mike be able to take over the identity of another man Ben, for 4 years and not even one person suspect anything? The school that he was teaching at, all the staff and students had no problem seeing a different man with the same name? What about friends or relatives? How did they live in isolation for 4 years? Christine (Nicole Kidman) comes off more as whiny and self-pitying and no wonder Mike beat her and always got away with it. Is it so easy to forge documents to cheat the hospital into releasing a patient to live with a complete stranger and how did Mike manage to get hold of the son's birth certificate? Could that be easily forged as well? At the cafe, Dr Nasch said he'd pass her case to another neurologist as it'd be unethical and unprofessional to continue with the treatment yet he was sitting beside her hospital bed in the end. And how had Dr Nesch managed to call Christine every morning at the time so happened when Mike was out, to tell her about the camera? How did he know where she'd put the camera? Had he been in the house? And if he'd been in the house, he didn't suspect she was living with a total stranger? Why not used a voice recorder as to repeat the same thing to the same person everyday might get a little annoying? You mean he'd been doing this for 7 days a week for 4 years, and he still didn't suspect that she'd be living with a stranger, and Mike never suspected anything as well? Wouldn't Mike do something about the doctor if he was so bent on keeping his identity a secret? Wouldn't a doctor who was treating her for 4 years at least know what her husband look like and know she'd been living with a total stranger, and tried to warn her? The end, Christine's amnesia was not cured? So how'd the real Ben and son Adam showing up mean anything because she'd just forget them the next day? And after everything, she'd believe the man standing in front of her was the real Ben and not some other imposter? And it was Dr Nesch who called the real Ben? So he must have known the real Ben and there again, he didn't suspect she was living with a stranger for 4 years? And he'd be calling the wrong house all along because the real Ben was living with the son somewhere else? And the real Ben had supposedly dumped Christine in some sort of home, and Christine felt ok about it as she felt nothing when she saw him again? We go back to square one and nothing is improved or happened since the beginning. Colin Firth is wrongly cast because he's not convincing to play an abusive husband, his expression is blank and serious at most but not intimidating. I think it'd have worked better if he was the doctor and Mark Strong was the abusive lover instead. Christine is a mediocre character with no personality whatsoever and didn't evoke any sympathy or support. I half-hope Mike just beat her to death and be done with it, so sick to look at the plastic skin and bad hair that just made her look more like a creepy stalker. I'm sure all the actors try their best so I didn't fast-forward through the whole film much, and managed to watch the ending without skipping. Thank God I didn't pay to see it.

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Mohamed Abdalla
2014/11/06

Amnesia can be a blessing in such a life of "Nicole Kidman". The woman who got hit,cheated on,kidnapped, and deprived from her son.The movie starts with a scene of Nicole's eyes, and yes it's a beautiful scene to start a movie with. Then we move to know that she has amnesia and living with her husband, after-that the events continue while she is trying to remember and solve the mystery behind her amnesia.The movie has really beautiful shots of different places, and the cinematographer did a great job of showing the beauty of symmetry in addition to the using of slow side to side movement of the camera which really resemble the nature of that kind of movies.There are not much people to suspect in that movie, so the finale is quiet expected but the director has a good twisted end for you.Finally, it's a good drama/mystery movie with thrill added in a perfect amount, you will enjoy it if you are looking for a small adrenaline rush.

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commander_zero
2014/11/07

If cinema was invented solely so that we could spend an hour or two watching beautiful actresses emote in closeup, then BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP is great cinema. Nicole Kidman plays Christine, a woman fully functioning in every way except that a head trauma from a mysterious assault has left her with only short-term memory: every night as she sleeps, she forgets everything about herself, and has to relearn her identity the next day. There are worse ways of spending one's brief time on earth than watching Ms. Kidman register confusion, surprise, fear, curiosity, determination and (reflecting the audience's feelings) more confusion. It is hard, however, to imagine how any filmmaker could convey this protagonist's situation, pitiful as it is, without a trace of humour. Writer/director Rowan Joffe has made the film as claustrophobic as BURIED (which Ryan Reynolds spends in an underground coffin) but without a trace of irony, or its own essential absurdity (which Christopher Nolan was able to infuse into the same situation in MEMENTO). Christine is well-kept in her disability; the characteristically dour Colin Firth plays Ben, who greets her in the morning, explains her situation, then goes off to work as a chemistry teacher, leaving Christine alone in an enormous modernist suburban manse somewhere near London; the characteristically helpful-but-menacing Mark Strong plays Dr. Nasch (his first name is a plot point too complex to explain here), who phones Christine as soon as Ben has left for work, coaches her in keeping a video diary, and takes her on outings (through a perpetually damp, rainy south England – the film has a pervasive late-November feeling) supposedly to help her regain her memory. Christine gradually starts to understand her plight, although the viewer simply becomes more and more confused. Christine spends most of her time alone in the house; outside it's always dim and rainy. There are breakdowns in dramatic logic: having uncovered a key fact about herself, Christine meets Ben at the door and while berating him, stands outside in a Niagara-volume downpour, ignoring Ben's requests that they move just a few meters to get inside. In another absurd scene, Christine is reunited with a beloved best friend, Clare. When Clare confesses a fleeting infidelity with Ben, Christine turns her back on her and leaves – although Clare offers her the only chance to have a social life beyond her present gloomy and mysterious life with the two gloomy and mysterious men who take turns mentoring/ manipulating her.Still, it is very much Kidman's show and she makes the best of it; as well she must, since she is at the centre of almost every scene. If you want to watch a virtuoso actor in a state of perpetual tension and distress, there is no one better than Kidman, though a superior film to do so would be THE OTHERS.

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