10. In such an event, the general officer aboard the Looking Glass … A cop with a needling sense of humor (Marc Blucas) starts sniffing around. Ray and Maggie have lost their child to an accident. It can be explained as the reflection of what we think we appear in front of others or how we are viewed and conceived by others. Some people say that the Looking Glass device works like the human Pineal Gland. "[5] Jesse Hessenger of The A.V. 10. While nobody is sure what age Alice is in the first book, we can conclude how old she is in the second one. This revelation leads Ray to ignore the better angels of his nature, and soon enough he is practically drooling, watching lesbian S&M play even as he chastises a trucker client for claiming the prostitutes he brings to his own (the trucker’s, that is) room are his, um, daughters. If the Looking Glass device is real, then this would have a huge impact on today's world. He appears to be suspicious of Ray for not calling the police for the pig corpse. Some of the information was recopied in Sumerian cylinder seals. Director Hunter, whom I infer from the trades took over from originally scheduled director Dori Oskowitz, still has an eye for telling and discomforting detail, as in the visibly dirty soles of the feet of one of the murder victims as she’s being dragged from a room. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 17% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. Due to Ben’s weird behavior, Ray becomes suspicious and soon discovers a secret underground hallway, leading to a tiny room with a one-way mirror that allows to secretly observe motel room No. Then we have Kevin Crumb, aka "The Horde,"on the other end; he's already kidnapped a new group of cheerleaders, whom he fully intends on mutilating. Ray feels more and more uncomfortable due to Howard’s and the gas station staffs’ odd behavior. As they meet, Ben seems to be confused and suffering from paranoia. a technology for remote viewing of the future. Oh, the mysteries! One night, Ray and Maggie go to a casino. Things heat up when one of the women Ray has been peeping on turn up dead. After Howard repeatedly asks Ray if he murdered Crissy and Ray repeatedly nervously denies, Howard starts to laugh and appears to believe him. He notices that Howard keeps asking if he knew Ben’s whereabouts and that Jessica has nightly visits from another blonde woman (Strawberry Blonde). Foos' setup was documented by Gay Talese in the 2016 New Yorker article "The Voyeur's Motel". Let me explain: The movie opens with Ego (Russell) falling in “love” with Peter Quill’s mother. He tells Strawberry Blonde to stay away from his motel. This does not do wonders for Ray and Maggie’s marriage, and in one blow-out scene, all is revealed: dead child, infidelity, substance abuse. Later Ray hears a noise and sees a man running away from the motel after having splashed red paint on the motel. Soon, Strawberry Blonde moves back into the motel and insists on getting room No. The original technology was derived from cylinder seals that slightly predate Sumerian time frame. Lot of issues. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. It was released in the United States by Momentum Pictures on February 16, 2018. Ray drives to the desert and burns the corpse. 10 in company of a prostitute, Howard, a local deputy sheriff who comes by the motel every few days to have coffee as well as the gas station owner and his mechanics on the other side of the road. Time becomes more vibrant for the beholder. If you can travel through time, should you kill baby Hitler? The next morning, Howard comes over. Looking Glass is a 2018 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Nicolas Cage. 10, Ray spies on her and Strawberry Blonde through the one-way mirror and sees them have BDSM sex. In the midsection of “Glass,” Shyamalan hits every beat more than once, almost joylessly. [8], "Nicolas Cage is a Bored Peeping Tom in VOD Bait 'Looking Glass' — Review", "A voyeur, a skeevy motel and Nicolas Cage: 'Looking Glass' aims for Lynchian suspense", "Looking Glass will make you nostalgic for when Nic Cage did movies with Brian De Palma", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_(film)&oldid=994722047, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 December 2020, at 05:48. Which would not be that important. Rated R 2 talking about this. I started giggling almost … Glass is a film with many layers — layers that don't become apparent until after all the big revelations are made. Cage and Robin Tunney play a married couple, Ray and Maggie, who, in response to a family tragedy, are pulling a geographical. Club wrote, "Despite [Cage's] presence and the movie's atmosphere, Looking Glass is just another murder mystery without enough suspects. Ray and Maggie later see a news report about Jessica, who has been found murdered in the desert. The classic story Alice in Wonderland contains some hidden truths about the human brain. The individual develops feelings about and responds to those perceived judgments. Once inside, he makes a scintillating discovery: a ceiling-height tunnel big enough for him to crawl through, and to peep on the clients in a particular room. That individual imagines others’ judgment of that appearance. He also reveals that he spoke to the gas station staff who have had an eye on Ray ever since that visit. As infants, human beings form their very selves from the reflections and responses gained by their earliest behaviors visited upon the … The episode holds the mirror up to Tim Blake Nelson's Wade "Looking Glass" Tillman, bringing an iconic event from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' original Watchmen comics to … The now moment is on this timeline. The Commentary that follows is from my [Bill Hamilton's] source that linked with inside sources and took notes on Project Looking Glass and Time Travel experiments: “With regard to LG (Looking Glass): As I understand it, this device (at least 3 to 4 years ago) could not focus on … Ray propositions her, but she ignores it. There’s no key on his own chain for the lock, so off to the hardware story he goes. According to Society in Focus, the process of discovering the looking-glass self occurs in three steps: An individual in a social situation imagines how they appear to others. Tunney does fine with the material, which, as scripted by Jerry Rapp and Matthew Wilder, is not inordinately inspired. On November 11, 2019, Q mentioned Project Looking Glass, which is? Charles Horton Cooley, in his work, Human nature and the Order, introduced the concept of “the looking glass self” in 1902. David’s strength isn’t that abnormal and Kevin’s powers as The Beast could be explained away. After calling many people and asking them to leave Ben a message, Ben finally calls and agrees to meet Ray in the desert. Upon arriving at the motel, he notices Howard’s police car in the parking lot and finds signs of a struggle in his apartment. As they set up shop, strangely unable to scare up the fellow from whom they bought the place, Ray discovers a “Private” office whose door is chained and bolted. Howard says he now understands how Ben knew what he did, revealing why he was so anxious to find him. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is a pretty snazzy film… And its sequel was sort of snazzy as well… But the mysteries! Looking Glass is the code name for an airborne command and control center operated by the United States. Having killed an orderly with shards of glass from one of his picture frames, Glass frees Crumb and makes a deal with his Beast personality, explaining … The fellows who run the gas station across the street from the motel, including one standard-issue creepily-skinny guy played by Jason K. Wixom, cast a cold eye on the often abrupt and rude Ray. In more recent years it has been more officially referred to as the ABNCP. They have a fight, but Ray manages to calm Maggie down and shows her the one-way mirror, admitting to her having watched other people have sex. Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the playground in which the film operates "should be enough to make for a satisfyingly disreputable thriller" but that hoping for one "doesn't equal results. "[3] Eric Cohn of IndieWire described Nicolas Cage's character as a "bored peeping tom" and called the film "VOD bait"[4] in his negative review. The great actor Nicolas Cage has, one could say, officially entered the phase of his career in which observers are consistently on the lookout for a “return to form.” The upcoming “Mandy,” a new film by the distinctive young director Panos Cosmatos, and starring Cage, wowed more than a few critics at Sundance. They have a scuffle, but Ray manages to get hold of a pistol and kills Howard. Howard tells Maggie he plans to kill her and Ray, making it look like Ray killed her and then committed suicide. ‘Through The Looking Glass’ also has the distinction of being one of the few hardcore films to be re-edited for mainstream release. The Looking-Glass Self theory is also known as Symbolic Interactionism. "[6], Reviewers, such as Craig Lindsey of the Los Angeles Times,[7] note the similarity of the motel's setup to the case of Gerald Foos, a former motel owner in Colorado who had modified his motel to allow him to spy on most of the rooms. Hours after their arrival, Ben calls Ray briefly, and disconnects his cellphone number soon after. about the continuation of the relationship between Alice and the Mad Hatter than it is about following the flow and story of Lewis Carroll’s books. The story of a troubled couple that buys a motel in the desert to leave their past behind has a promising premise. It was released in the United States by Momentum Pictures on February 16, 2018. Ray gets his attention to the mirror by knocking on it, and when Howard is close enough, Ray dives through it and wrestles him to the ground where they fight, stabbing each other with knives and glass. And timelines would be like a traffic jam? ... Tweedledum and Tweedledee notice the Red King sleeping nearby and explain to Alice that she exists only as a figment of the Red King’s dream. After a hu… It provides command and control of U.S. nuclear forces in the event that ground-based command centers have been destroyed or otherwise rendered inoperable. Ray tells Ben he knows about the one-way mirror and calls him a pervert, but Ben answers, he was studying human sociology. When Strawberry Blonde leaves, he follows her car to a bar and interrogates her about Jessica’s death since she had been with her the night she died, but Strawberry Blonde does not answer his questions and reveals she knows about the one-way mirror. But these occasional frissons can’t save “Looking Glass” from tepidity. 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Ray and Maggie also make acquaintance with Tommy, a likable truck driver who regularly frequents motel room No. He starts to interrogate him and reveals to him that Crissy was actually murdered in the night after Ray and Maggie had first visited the motel prior to them buying it and that her murderer has not yet been caught. A young woman named Jessica soon moves into the motel. It was kind of predictable but still engaging due to his acting and the moody camera angles. He frees Maggie and they speed off by car. Glass is a 2019 American psychological superhero thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who also produced with Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan.It was co-produced by John Rusk, who was also the 1st assistant director on this film as well as on many other Shyamalan's films. In Through the Looking Glass we hear Alice reveal her age twice; both times stating she is 7 and 1/2 years old. Cage, on the other hand, sporting a fake beard that looks like something you might craft with that Wooly Willy magnet toy, here seems to confuse underplaying with flatness. Angrily Ray goes across the street and accuses the gas station manager of being involved, but the manager denies involvement. “Looking Glass” opens with driver’s seat views of roads and credits in red type and a typeface that will look familiar to fans of for sexual content, violence and language. Unfortunately, that is not the 2018 Nicolas Cage movie I am reviewing right now. I'll give a hilariously brief summary. A man attacks Ray, but Ray pulls a revolver and knocks him unconscious. Looking through the one-way mirror, he sees Maggie gagged and restrained to the bed with Howard laying in wait for him. [2], The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "even the actors' fine efforts cannot rescue Looking Glass from terminal murkiness. As Maggie moves Jessica to room No. The plot’s central mystery suffers from “Body Double” syndrome in that the movie has so few characters that the villain’s reveal can only elicit a shrug. Realizing he is in danger, he calls Maggie and asks her to pack up her things. Looking Glass gives Nicolas Cage a chance to turn in an atypically understated performance, but this is still a suspense thriller with a fatal dearth of suspense or thrills. “Looking Glass” opens with driver’s seat views of roads and credits in red type and a typeface that will look familiar to fans of David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” and “Lost Highway.” “Heart,” of course, starred Cage way back in the day, when his eccentrically expressive behavioral tics seemed perfectly suited to a Lynchian world. Even before being cast on HBO's Watchmen, self-defined "resolute nerd" Tim Blake Nelson would imitate the character Rorschach with his sons. Strawberry Blonde had also advised her to keep an eye on Ray. When Ray returns to the motel, Maggie is furious and reveals that Howard had interrogated her about him. After a visit to Glass’s ex, who clones pets for a living, Angela’s pills are revealed to be “Nostalgia,” memories in pharmaceutical form, which explains the night terrors of Lady Trieu’s daughter. 1998’s Through the Looking Glass. Cooley used the term to explain the process of socialization. [1] On Metacritic, which assigns normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Later that night, after Strawberry Blonde and Ray have left, Jessica is strangled to death by a masked assailant. On one end, we have David Dunn, our low-key "Superman" who has become a neighborhood vigilante of sorts, taking out petty criminals with the help of his grown-up son, Joseph. He decides the only way to find out is to speak to Ben. … David Robson takes a leap down the rabbit hole. Suddenly, a gunshot strikes Ben to the chest and kills him. A short summary of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Through the Looking-Glass. Later that night, Ray watches her and another woman have BDSM sex, but also notices a man sitting around the corner in the bathroom. Looking Glass is a 2018 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Nicolas Cage. Looking Glass is a horror short film exploring privilege, codependency, and other matters of the heart. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Portrayed by Tim Blake Nelson, Looking Glass is one of Tulsa, Oklahoma 's masked police officers and he has arguably the most visually striking hood in the series, which is made of a uniquely shiny mirror-like material and is reminiscent of Rorschach's mask. Eric Kohn Add to that the fact that Hunter went on to be one of the better non-Lynch directors of the first iteration of the TV series “Twin Peaks.” One can’t be blamed for hoping that this combination of talents at this time might combust into something interesting. A couple buy a desert motel where they find that strange, mysterious events occur Tommy says a young local woman named Crissy had committed suicide in the pool by cutting her stomach open. Longing for a fresh start, they purchase a motel from Ben in a small town located somewhere in the California desert on the way to Las Vegas. Ray sees a car speeding off in the distance. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. This was a good movie if you like creepy and dark psychological films and Nicholas Cage does creepy and dark very well. Glass and mirrors appear frequently throughout Ex Machina, and at one point, Caleb references the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, … Nicolas Cage is a Bored Peeping Tom in VOD Bait ‘Looking Glass’ — Review There are times when Cage can transcend low-grade B-movie material, and then there's this. The director of this film, Tim Hunter, was making a mark in the mid-eighties; his wonderful “River’s Edge” mixed a mode of teen realism that recalled early Jonathan Kaplan with a sense of dread that could be well cited as Lynchian. Looking Glass Technology – Device using wormhole technology to see into future probability or past. 10. was? Also dead: a pig that some malevolent pranksters have tossed into the motel’s swimming pool. "Looking Glass" is an impressively senseless, weird and awful film with the cult-actor Nicolas Cage, the gorgeous Robin Tunney and Marc Blucas in the lead roles. 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