Premonition

I went to see Premonition on Friday with Em, Lobs, Phelan and Debbie.

The Physics crew were all trying to drag me along to see 300, but I heard that 1 hour and 15 mins of the film are all killing, and that theres lots of Spartan men in thongs, and lots of body parts being blown off, which isn't my idea of a good time.

So basically, it was either Premonition or 300.

Premonition is a 12A, 300 is a 15, so I assumed Premonition would be easier to watch. Plus I like Sandra Bullock. =)

Don't get me wrong, Premonition is a good film, but I've never got on particularly well with psychological thrillers...

Remember the time we went to see Secret Window? We only went coz it had Johnny Depp in it. The three of us ended up all sitting in one chair, screaming.

And when it finally finished, none of us wanted to leave the cinema in case we got a screwdriver smashed through our heads.


However, Premonition wasn't excessively gory. There were some things that made you squirm in your seat, but on the whole, they were quite conservative when it came to gore.

There were only 2 scenes I can think of that had blood in them. One was when she trips over in the garden and her hand goes into a dead crow. That was REALLY disgusting.

The other was when her daughter runs through a glass door and gets cuts all over her face. There was a lot of blood in that scene. And it was quite upsetting, coz, you know, a kid going through a window isn't really an enjoyable thing to watch.
(Unless, of course, the window is open).


They did a lot of scary music, and those creepy black and white shots of wind blowing through trees and crows flying around and stuff...

Oh, and the lid comes off a coffin, but you don't see inside. I think. I wasn't taking any chances with that part - my eyes were shut.

But it was a really good film.




In case you don't know, it's about a woman who has a premonition of her husband's death. She had quite a few premonitions, so she is able to keep a diary and work out what will happen the week her husband dies, and try and stop it from happening.



But, the plot thickens, because she finds out that her husband was planning to have an affair the day that he dies.



So she has to decide whether it would be better to let him die than to have their family ripped apart by the affair (they have 2 small children).



Also, she has to work out whether letting someone die is the same thing as killing them.

So yeah, it's a really good film. The only reason I don't like it is because they could have SO easily made it have a happy ending, and they didn't.

I like films to have happy endings even if it makes it totally unrealistic. I don't care. I just want everyone to be happy.

Premonition could have had a happy ending, but it didn't. And the thing that makes it even worse is that they tease you. Up until the last minute of the film, you're so sure that they are going to live happily ever after; everything is falling into place, all the problems are starting to be resolved. And then right at the end they snatch all that away from you.

I literally felt robbed when it happened.

But looking back at it now, I think that the ending wasn't as bad as I thought it was at the time. Even though they didn't let everyone live happily ever after, the ending isn't as bad as it first seems... it kinda leaves you thinking that yeah, the world can be a harsh place, and bad stuff happens, but there's still hope.
You can still find happiness when things don't work out like you planned.


I won't tell you how it ends though. Go and watch it!