While driving in a winding narrow road, Arthur Seligman (José Garcia) has an accident and capsizes with his car and awakes from a short coma in a hospital in Cherbourg. With amnesia and without recalling why he left Paris, Arthur is informed by the nurse Isabelle Kruger (Marion Cotillard) that he had spoken lots of senseless sentences and she gives her notes to him. Arthur reads the disjointed sentences and many images flash in his brain while he tries to find his missing brother, using drugs and psychiatric treatment in his investigation. Suddenly, his reality changes to another one, and Arthur discloses innermost secrets hidden in his mind since his childhood and finds the truth about his brother and himself.
"La Boîte Noire" has a great initial sequence, with Arthur's accident, and is intriguing. Unfortunately, the predictable conclusion is very disappointing. This movie and "The Jacket" (of the same year 2005) are rip-off of Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" (1990). The performance of José Garcia in the role of a paranoid character is great and the cinematography is very above the average, showing the pace of a video clip. In the end, this film is a reasonable entertainment. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Caixa Preta" ("Black Box")
"La Boîte Noire" has a great initial sequence, with Arthur's accident, and is intriguing. Unfortunately, the predictable conclusion is very disappointing. This movie and "The Jacket" (of the same year 2005) are rip-off of Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" (1990). The performance of José Garcia in the role of a paranoid character is great and the cinematography is very above the average, showing the pace of a video clip. In the end, this film is a reasonable entertainment. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Caixa Preta" ("Black Box")