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Plot
Child psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is an expert in an experimental treatment for coma patients. This involves wearing a virtual reality suit and complete sensory immersion within the minds of her patients in order to coax them out of their coma. Here, she can meet and communicate with them in dream-like sequences. The story begins inside a little boy's mind with Catherine, dressed in a white gown riding a black horse, in a desert to meet with him. Catherine attempts to talk to the boy, Edward, whom Catherine calls Mr. E (an obvious allusion to the childs hidden mental troubles which are a "Mystery"). The Boy turns out to be tormented by a "Mokelock" which he'd gotten from Mother Goose that drives the boy away from Catherine, who was trying to get him to go sailing. A psychologist is a scientist and/or clinician who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human mind, including behavior and cognition. ...
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Meanwhile, there is a serial killer named Carl Rudolph Stargher, played by Vincent D'Onofrio. He does an extremely disturbing and unusual thing with his victims. Each of them is a beautiful young blond; he captures them and then imprisons them in a glass cell which is then slowly filled with water until they drown (with this being videotaped for his later viewing pleasure). He then takes them out and bleaches their bodies so they resemble dolls, builds and places a collar around their necks, and sets them inside display cases attatched to devices which make them move in sexual, sadomasochistic poses. Just as the police finally aprehend him, he falls into a coma due to his unusual form of schizophrenia before revealing to police where his last abductee in the glass cell is located. Catherine is contacted by the FBI to venture into Carl's mind to find the answer before the cell fills with water and it is too late. The killer's mind, however is an extremely strange, abstract, sexual, violent and disturbing place drastically different from those of her previous patient's and she finds it difficult to stay in the hostile and frightening environment for any considerable length of time. During her repeated attempts to find a way to communicate with Stargher, she realizes that there are basically two separate 'entities' within the man's psyche. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...
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The dominant personality represents the serial killer within Stargher, usually appearing to Catherine as the adult Stargher, but his form is often twisted into a demonic, almost god-like phantasm. He treats her as a lower being, a pet for him to toy with, as he views her as another potential victim. The submissive personality takes the form of a frightened little boy, who often lures Catherine into memories from Stargher's childhood. The boy seems interested in helping Catherine, and she too feels an obligation to help set this innocent part of Stargher's mind free from the dark influence of his alter ego. After obtaining enough clues to the final abductee's whereabouts, Catherine attempts to separate the boy from the demonic serial killer ego by inviting him into her own mind. Catherine possesses more power while inside her own mind, and attempts to kill the evil entity. Upon noticing that both the boy and the serial killer receive injuries when one is harmed, she realizes the evil half cannot be killed without also killing the innocent half. In danger of losing control of her own mind to the dark entity, Catherine must make a difficult decision to kill the boy in order to stop the 'infection' of evil.
Artistic influences The movie is notable for its numerous abstract, artistic and sometimes disturbing scenes, sets, costumes and props which are inspired by several famous works of art. The scene in which a horse is split into sections was inspired by the works of British artist Damien Hirst, whose works were included in the controversial "Sensation" art exhibition. The film also includes scenes based on the work of other late 20th century artists, including Odd Nerdrum, H. R. Giger and the Brothers Quay. Additionally, some scenes appear to be influenced by the style of Floria Sigismondi and French artists Pierre et Gilles. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ...
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Box office US box office domestic takings: $61,280,963[1]
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References - ^ the-numbers.com, "The Cell" box office data
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