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Film Review: The Invisible Saturday, May 5, 2007 - The Invisible poses an interesting thought. What if our death is somehow delayed, and our bodies sit in limbo being too ill to move, but our spirit continues to live on? Justin Chatwin stars as Nick, a senior in high school one week from graduation. Gifted at writing, he wants to attend a writing course in London. His father died when Nick was 13, and his mom (Marcia Gay Harden) gives off continued vibes of being very cold. While he stares at the breakfast she has prepared for him of two eggs and a strip of bacon arranged in a smiley face, she vetoes the London idea and he turns the bacon into a frown. Nick's best friend, Pete (Chris Marquette), is in a bit of trouble as he bought a stolen cell phone from a thug at school and hasn't paid up. The thug harasses and threatens him, and as she stalks away, we're a little startled to see this thug is actually a teenage girl, Annie (Margarita Levieva). Nick tries to help his friend out and ends up in a fight with Annie, landing them both in the principal's office. He whispers in her ear, "You're so broken." He's right; Annie is broken, as she comes home to her dad and step-mom who do very little to care for her and her older brother. She and her boyfriend steal a car that night and she does a smash and grab as well. He tells her she's out of control and kicks her and the jewels out, and reports her to the police anonymously. When she's busted, she assumes it was either Pete or Nick.Nick already has plane tickets to go to London and is leaving that night, and says his goodbyes to Pete. When he gets home, his mom presents him with the ticket that she found. Later that night he's walking down a street and is jumped and left for dead. Yet the next morning he arises out of the manhole he was left in and tries to continue his life, only to find out he's invisible to everyone. They can't hear or see him, and when he disrupts something, like knocking something over or bumping into a person, it just goes back to the way it was before he bothered it or them. His mother reports him missing, and Nick follows everyone in his life around trying to get them to realize he's laying in the bottom of the manhole and that it was a result of a beating by Annie and her friends. He realizes that although they don't see or hear him, he can get into their heads a little, as he confronts his mom sitting there working like she doesn't care, just like she did after his father died. Once he gets into her head, he gets her to break down, and finally sees her true emotions. The person he most torments, though, is Annie, working on her guilt over what she did to him, hoping she'll turn herself in and tell the cops where his body is before he dies.
What resulted from The Invisible was a fascinating way to look at life. Just as Jimmy Stewart had a chance to re-examine his life in It's a Wonderful Life, Nick gets a chance to do just that. While he so brazenly called Annie broken, following her around, he sees a completely different side to her. Where this movie greatly excels is creating sympathetic characters. While Marcia Gay Harden created a stone-faced version of a mother, by the end we understand. While Annie walked around hiding in heavy coats and a knit cat, we knew there was a beautiful girl underneath, and we eventually find sympathy for her and her situation. It's Pete that we lose more and more impatient with as he turns out to not always be the good friend he should be. Yuddy Score: A Yud -Laura Tucker
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