Saturday, June 21, 2008

Shattered Image (1998)

A woman oscillates between two existences, without knowing which is real and which is dream: in one of them she is an assassin, in the other she is a wife on her honeymoon.

Spoilers ahead.

Another entry in the wife-in-distress genre, very popular since the forties I think (Suspicion; Sleep, My Love; the list is probably longer), the main point being: is he trying to kill her or not? Here we have the additional element of two realities, but the screenplay is problematic in this regard: the assassin existence hasn't much bearing on the the newlywed existence; things don't wrap up satisfactorily in the end. And the basic plot of evil husband taking advantage of unbalanced wife is worn-out.

Rating: 30

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