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Page THE HERALD Wednesday August 15 Movie Review Flatliners a look at the dark side By GARRY J MURDOCH The Herald Director Joel Schumacher has taken moviegoers into the dark side of life perhaps death would be the most appropriate word with his new movie Flatliners Producers Scott Rudin and Michael Rachmil knew Flatliners would be a hit before it even open ed which probably explains why almost every young star tried desperately to get casted for the picture Not because it boasted mega star Keifer Sutherland and relative newcomer Julia Roberts who achieved fame in Pretty Woman but because the movie dealt with an old topic perhaps the oldest in an entirely different way That topic was death and how five up and coming medical students decide to find the answer to it And how do they find the Quite simply by killing each other And then hoping thev can bring each other back to life through modern technology The movie takes a different twist however from earlier films No one came back in ghostly form no one inhabited someone else s body and no one was sucked into void of immense proportions Instead writer Peter kept the movie as realistic as possible by exploring the depths of each student psyche Essentially their own pasts What happens when they die they soon discover is that thev are reacquainted with their sins some long since forgotten Unfortunately much to the physical chagrin of Keifer Sutherland the hauntmgs don t stop after their revivals Each stu dent slowly begins to realize ex one played by Oliver Pratt who have much desire to flatline his brain waves anyway they must come to grips with each of their past mistakes if they are to ever live peacefully again is frightening no the intense scenes or the edge of your seat suspense isn t what makes it frightening nor is it the melo dramatic opera like music It is the concept that is frighten ing Five ordinary people or dmary only if the moviegoer can accept the fact that ordinary sane people will do such things to each other with some medical training decide that they can find the answers by killing themselves fortunately it gets harder and BURGER Georgetown Starting Aug 2nd FREE KDS CLUB CHARACTERS With The Purchase of a Kids ClubMeol Of ON harder to bring them back pro bably because each of them has foolishly decided to remain dead longer In one incredibly unbelievable scene Julia Roberts challenged Keifer Sutherland by saying she 11 go for five minutes rather than his four forty Although the movie revolves around Keifer Sutherland probably because the sin he has to atone for is the most serious especially strong performances are given by Kevin Bacon who plays an atheist who is convinced everyone is hallucinating until he decides to be the next subject and Julia Roberts William Baldwin who plays a womanizer with a fiance is thrown in for a bit of comic relief while Oliver Pratt whose character can stop dictating everything he see into a dictaphone in a voice drama ticallv reminisce of is there to put everything into some kind of down to- Earth common sense I did not come to medical school so I could kill my col leagues he says in that derogative hushed tone But he does because he too gets caught up in the fascination Sutherland instills in them all because he too wants the answers to death Surprisingly enough none return from the dead with permanent brain damage or illness All are as before ready to begin their careers as doctors One can hope with their extra midnight ex thit the don t end up as our family physicians One gets the feeling at the beginning that they are all slightly mad This is only overcome by each student s intensely inquisitive to solve the unknown The fact that one of the bunch turn Sutherland in for concocting such a plan in the first place is perhaps one of the writer few faults gives no answers it gives no solutions to the universal question of life and death Writer has come up with an ex senpt and a good pilot for moviegoers to escape for an hour or 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