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In the end, only kindness matters

posted 20 years ago by jmbwithcats
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The film 'Inner Senses' is almost two movies. The first chapter is about a young female college student, Yan, who sees ghosts. Yan moves into a small apartment alone, and begins to have strange hallucinations, so she sees a doctor, Jim, On the behest of her cousin. Through her vulnerability she starts to fall for her doctor, who is also her professor, but they are able to keep a professional relationship, and she actually gets cured through the reconciliation between her and her estranged parents that Jim orchestrates.

The next chapter soon begins though, with Jim and Yan living together, and all is well, until he begins sleepwalking, or rather renews a pattern he lived years ago. He though is in deep denial, and will not believe it is his problem, even when he watches a tape of his nightly activities.

We soon find he is haunted by his own ghosts. The love he outgrew and cast aside in high school, who took her life in a terrible way, never resolved, now demands a forum in the hall of the heart. Will he survive the meeting?

The film is very touching, with intermittent spooks, well placed, without being overdone, with obvious ideas taken from Hideo Nakata, an overall very enjoyable, and moving film about love, loss, self discovery, and the battle of the mind and heart to move on. Slightly sappy at times, the story and acting are good enough to overlook the flaws.

Overall Score 7/10

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[–] kadeskiss 19 years ago

I like the fact that he make you ask the question "what is real?. Jim did not believe in ghostes or spirits, he thought it was a trick that the mind plays , when one hears ghost story. so was jim ghost real? or was they merely his mind playing tricks on him, because of Yan's seeing ghost?

[–] jmbwithcats 19 years ago

I think thats part of what makes this movie work so well, we never do find out, all we find out perhaps is the importance of keeping an open mind.

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[–] thepoet26 19 years ago

Jim was in such strong denial that he had completely blocked out the all memory of what happened with his former girlfriend. What do you think led him to take such an active interest in disproving the existence of ghosts? As he said, even though he blocked her from his memory, he was never truly able to be happy with another woman................because that memory existed somewhere inside his subconscious and she simply wouldn't let him go.

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[–] kungfucowboy83 18 years ago

i have to disagree. i think the gohsts weren't real. since he had been dealing with people who saw ghosts all the time his repressed memories came back to him in the form of an imagined ghost. the entire scene at the end with him and his dead girlfriend was his manifestation of his internal battle with his guilt over, a sorting out of his memories revealed that she would have forgiven him and thus he forgive's himself and doesn't jump.