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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-05 20:04:00

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creator: mark waid, creator: minck oosterveer, publisher: boom!, title: the unknown

The Unknown 3-4
The series about detectives who investigate the afterlife reaches the conclusion of its first story arc. We get some answers, as Cat and Doyle solve the case of who stole the box designed to measure a human soul.

Recap: Cat and Doyle are searching for a box designed to scientifically measure the human soul. It was stolen from its creators, and Cat's taken the case. While following leads, they were attacked by a faceless ninja monster.

Doyle recalls how the ghoul came up to him and whispered something in his ear. He doesn't tell Cat about that, though. All he says is:

The two manage to locate the stolen box.

Who lives there:

Inside, there's mainly lots of blackness. Also, a second, smaller door.

Jerk move, Doyle.

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box_in_the_box
2009-09-06 05:17 am UTC (link)

Speaking as a student of IRL "X-Files," the movie takes extensive liberties with the reported facts of the case, but ironically enough, in so doing, it conveys the SPIRIT of the whole affair that much better. It helps that Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton and Alan Bates all deliver excellent performances, as characters who are all suffering from some degree of PTSD, and the visuals and soundtrack are so rich that they practically qualify as their OWN character.

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abbadie
2009-09-06 06:01 am UTC (link)

As a tarot reader, I once got a woman whom I made an ordinary reading, which curiously included that she needed to focus on the future. When I was finished, she demanded to know why I hadn't told her about how death haunted her (those were her words). She then told me her long life story about how her first son died as a child, her older daughter died five years before, and her remaining daughter died on the anniversary of her sister's death, to the day. She had frequent dreams and visions at her home, and lots of so-called mediums (after leeching her cash) gave her messages from her children and assured her that death stalked her each day.

I listened to her, knowing that she had come merely to hear what she wanted to hear, to feed her fears and tragic fantasies... and when she was finished, I told her to get the movie The Mothman Prophecies and watch it as many times as she liked, until she realized why her situation and Richard Gere's plight were alike, and that she faced the same choice that he did at the end of the film. She left straight for Blockbuster, and I really hope she got the message. What else could I do?

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	box_in_the_box 2009-09-06 06:41 am UTC (link)
	Interesting that you were able to diagnose her need to move on into the future BEFORE she told you how much she was living in the past. And rarely does a movie simultaneously pique one's curiosity AND encourage them to leave well enough alone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

abbadie
2009-09-06 08:13 am UTC (link)

That's what makes it not only fascinating, but, I think, a very real warning of the true dangers of diving into forteana without restraint; I've seen it too often, in people I know. The dangers are not abductions or hexes, but quite plainly, losing sight of oneself's reality.

I like it when people stay silent during a Tarot reading because that way I won't be accused of drawing all the information from them; but straightforward questions, of course, are far easier to handle. But when I encounter such an awful case, I just can't remain detached; it's easy to understand her onbession after such tragic sinchronicities (forgot to mention that the daughters died on the birthday of the first son, if I remember right).

I'm creeped out by the girl detective's face when she says, "we solved the case". She looks insane; but then, so did the obsessed guy on the movie when he was perpetually on the verge of getting his phantom answers.

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