THE NINTH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX Review

THE NINTH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX Review

Sad thriller about family relationships.
 

THE NINTH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX Review

Specialist in diseases of the brain and child coma Allan Pascal ( Jamie Dornan ) tries to unravel the mystery of a nine-year boy Louis Drax ( Aiden Longworth ), attracting misfortune. The child fell into a coma after falling from the coastal cliffs - we know that the place where the tragedy occurred, Louis went with my parents on a family picnic in honor zhnya birth, and then nothing is clear. The child is unconscious, Mother ( Hitchcock blonde Sarah Gadon ) a little crazy, and stepfather ( Aaron Paul ) all ran away. Police are trying to find out if Louis injured himself, or has been the victim of abuse stepfather? The story is on behalf of the unconscious boy. In the initial frame, he swims in the depths of the blue ocean and says that survived for eight accidents, almost led to death from falling chandeliers in a cot to a spider bite and shock - and calls himself remarkably unlucky child. While in a coma, Louis has nothing to tell the police, but the mind is able to shed light on what happened. In this believe Dr. Pascal, who is always close to the patient, and the boy's mother, Natalie, with whom Louis has a mystical connection. At least, she says, and the doctor believes every day is increasingly succumbing to the mixed feelings of desire and compassion for Natalie - the sad and fragile, the beating I was in hysterics, and the seductive and fatal. Begin strangeness: amorous doctor sees nightmares, then receives a letter on behalf of the young Drax, and then did somehow his actions are intertwined with thoughts and memories of Louis.

Some of these memories is present in the form of retrospective scenes, in which the child communicates with his father, or a child psychologist visits ( Oliver Platt ). He was trying to uncover the paradox of attracting trouble child, apparently associated with its complex relationships at home, but then the therapy was interrupted. Flashbacks of their sessions are interesting links paintings: they Louie finds unpleasant problems of his mind, telling, for example, about how and why kill his hamster (Rasputin I, II and III, respectively). There is a view from a different angle - comatose boy's vision, which appears sloppy kind of monster, plastered with seaweed. At the heart of the painting " The Ninth Life of Louis Drax " - a novel Liz Jensen , adapted by Max Minghella . It was directed by Frenchman Alexandre Aja , the famous horror specialist, began his career among the directors' new French extremism ", but eventually removed in other steppe. The story that he decided to tell this time, not only full of lies and betrayals, but also romance. It was so uncharacteristic of the master that many fans would not have him, accusing him of carelessness. Indeed, stated atmosphere of " The Sixth Sense " and allusions to the mystical abilities of the child in the first minutes of the film (the boy died and was dead two hours, but suddenly breathing when he was taken for an autopsy) sluggish growth: from behind thriller peep detective, a little noir a little black comedy, and dominates here and all the family drama. All (well, almost all) of the strange phenomenon there are reasonable answers and vital conclusions: love out of pity - is a dead end, and the cause of the tragedy - not exactly ideal, with some deviations, although quite loving parents. Especially frustrating fans of adrenaline finals altogether melancholic , knock out a tear. After all, it is even unpleasant monster guardian angel, friendly boy friend, guide through the mysterious ocean comforting unconsciousness, from which in this harsh world somehow did not want to get out. " The Ninth Life of Louis Drax " at the box office from 1 September.