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Today I'll show you a horror film: "Black Box"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with Nolan Wright reminiscing about his family's blurred
and puzzled memories in a dream
With a confused gaze at the photos of his family,
Nolan barely recalls the dazzling smiles and tears of joy when his daughter was born
Suddenly, the nostalgia in this dream becomes a nightmare,
when an unknown man tries to strangle him helplessly
The vision settles down when he hears the voice of his daughter Ava
Nolan wakes up with such bewilderment
He witnesses his 10-year-old daughter, who serves as his vocabulary in reviving the lost memory
The horror film arises through an amnesiac person with an enigmatic background at the beginning
We can surmise that the main character experiences a tragic event,
which leads to exploring his identity
As he learns about himself, Nolan grasps that he is a 33-year-old photographer,
who now becomes a single parent after getting involved in a tragic experience
He realizes that a car accident six months ago,
brings him to the current uncertainty of self-identity and severe memory loss
Together with clueless thoughts and those memories handicapped,
is the death of his wife, Rachel Wright
Moreover, he receives warnings from Ava's teacher,
who threatens to report him to Child Services for his negligence
and forgetful behavior to his primary obligations as Ava's father
He even fails to get another photography contract,
as the clients prefer his performance before this near-death experience
the only way for them to sign it up again is to bring his memory back
With all these things happening to him,
he calibrates that the only way to bounce back from the seeming chaos,
is to find those missing pieces of his puzzle, and these are his memories
Out of desperation, he decides to undergo an experimental procedure,
believed and studied to make his subconscious active
and memories recovered through Doctor Lillian Brooks
This beacon of hope will only be possible through the hands of a brilliant neurologist
The said doctor has a significant but mysterious interest in Nolan's health condition,
and is best known for the dream project
This therapy works through an apparatus and headset called a black box,
which focuses on putting the person on those memories
It happens by navigating the person under hypnosis,
and gradually opening the patient's subconscious
The process will then extract those memories from their minds,
and make them into virtual experiences like dreams
He hopes for the effectiveness of the said treatment
in the soonest possible time as he urges to take care of his daughter
We can validly infer how the black box would slowly
become an answer to the surrealistic atmosphere in Nolan's lifeline of memory
Wearing the black box for the first time on his first treatment,
Nolan sees nothing, but a glimpse in the middle of the darkness
He only hears the voice of Dr.Brooks,
only considers the cursor being plunged into darkness to give life to hypnosis
In just a few seconds, he was able to probe another dimension
The dark screen suddenly depicts a virtual experience in a bedroom scene alone with a watch in the corner
Nolan needs to click the crown of the analog watch,
as instructed by Dr. Brooks in the middle of the treatment to travel to the next memory
From this, we can now discover how this black box symbolizes another perspective of reality,
a reality that makes Nolan question who he is
The next memory launches in a wedding ceremony, with a bride working in the aisle towards him,
suspecting this could be his wife
As the lady gets closer to him, he distinguishes that the bride has a blurred face;
so does everyone else in that ceremony
While navigating a scene from his memory, a man crawls toward him with an unseen appearance,
that makes him terrified and wakes up from the treatment
Though he is frightened by the initial treatment results, Nolan believes this as an improvement,
and shares this with his brother Dr. Garry, who happens to be in the same medical ward as Dr.Brooks
He shares the wedding scene during the first session of the treatment
Indeed, he aspires to quickly heal,
and bring back the lost momentum to recuperate the bond with Ava
One day, Nolan approaches Dr.Brooks again for his second session
He contemplates the thought of letting those memories, instead appear naturally in his subconscious
The doctor emphasizes that seeing blurred visions is expected in the preliminary stages of the treatment
As he wears the black box for the second time,
only the darkness is the rhythm until it routes him to a specific scenario
He finds himself in a room with the cry of a baby as the only symphony
He tries to locate the cry in that vision, and finally witnesses a baby with a blurred face again
Afterward, He sees broken plates on the floor and a figure of a woman crying
and staring in a mirror with no distinct facial features
In another corner, a man with twisted bones suddenly appears, slowly crawling towards him
Nolan is petrified, and begins uttering the phrase several times: "I run my mind, it doesn't run me "
But that strange man in the vision continuously crawls toward him
The dream residing in the Blackbox is then disturbed, and interrupted by that man trying to choke him
With this overwhelming experience,
Dr. Brooks comforts and allows him to understand the enigma
The said doctor states that these visions are all components of his subconscious and once part of his past
The scene marks how the said device "black box" becomes a remedy of elegy and unacceptance
While the execution remains unpredictable,
the message prevails, and highlights the main character's life as Noland
To deal with the confusion, Nolan consults his brother again, Dr Garry
and asks him about what he witnesses in that process
He questions if he ever hit his wife or anything in particular,
such as violence that happened to them before
Dr.Gary explains that it can be just hallucinations
Considering the burden on his plates, such as with Ava, his job, and his wife's loss,
the doctor supposes this trauma from the vehicle accident, triggers this bewilderment
The next day, Nolan visits an apartment with Ava,
and he sees a room that is perfectly similar to the visions during his first black box procedure
He sees a lady and a child lying on a sofa; so he immediately closes the door
What Nolan sees makes him ultimately wonder why the place
and setting are present in his treatment's perceived memories
As they climb the stairs, a snapshot of unestablished memories develops again to Nolan;
and he sees an unknown person falling on the stairs
With such detailed orchestration in this scene,
the character gets disturbed whether these memories are his or just plainly manipulated
Coupled with courage and doubt, Nolan revisits his brother, Dr.Gary
He reflects on his memories again
but Dr.Gary contradicts, stating that the hints of violence should never be part of his memory,
since he can attest how great Nolan is as a father and husband
Meanwhile, Dr.Garry again examines Nolan's medical history and laboratory reports,
due to Nolan's doubts and interrogation
He then discovers a record of Nolan, after the accident labeled as "suspected brain death",
and a follow-up note that he regains his consciousness after a three-day coma
These details push him to consult the other doctors about
how quickly Nolan recovers from a brain death situation
He investigates the skeptical and unnatural procedures of Dr. Brooks to his brother
Nolan revisits Dr.Brooks for his third session in hypnosis treatment,
since he aims to get a clearer image of his memories and experiences
In this session, he visions the wedding ceremony in the device again,
with blurred faces and creepy images that appear from the first session
A man is crawling and slowly approaching him
Nolan tries to remain his composure,
until this strange man slaps him and shifts him to other familiar memories
With such eagerness to learn his memory, he clicks the watch's crown;
and another glimpse of memory arises
He finds himself in a hospital with a woman looking at him
This time, the face of the woman now has a definite and remarkable image
Since he is in the same field as Dr.Brooks, Gary gives justice by deducing the information presented,
and revealing the intentions behind the unusual act
He wants to discover why false memories are experienced by his own brother
While the session is ongoing, Dr.Garry tries to intervene,
and looks for Dr.Brooks due to the questionable information and tests performed on Nolan's case
But Dr.Brook's assistant informs him that the procedure needs time,
and should not be interrupted for its effectiveness
The procedure continues; and Nolan is constantly pressing the analog watch to see different memories
He goes back to the wedding scene; and surprisingly, the woman's face is now vivid and recognizable
The memory exhibits a woman who is not Nolan's wife
The image is the identity of a woman Nolan saw in the apartment a few days ago,
which is not related to him
Correspondingly, a man now appears in the vision with his actual face,
and discerns that these memories are his and not Nolan's
In the middle of the session, the procedure reveals a horrifying truth
Nolan recounts that he is not Nolan at all
Thomas, the son of Dr Brooks,
turns out to be the owner of memories who died two years ago after falling off the stairs,
and the lady's husband named Miranda in the said apartment
It is now Thomas' memories and blueprints
that govern Nolan's body little by little through the help of his mother
Unanticipatedly, the session stops when Thomas is now taking over Nolan's body
with his memories completely
Dr. Brooks bursts into tears, and is mesmerized by the result
After a brilliant experiment,
Thomas appears alive in her patient's body by implanting those memories
to a brain-dead person in the form of Nolan
When the doctor successfully pulls off the dream project, she rejoices with Thomas,
and convinces her son to seize the moment of the second life
What leads Dr. Brooks to execute the controversial procedure, is her love and yearning for her son
Indeed, acceptance for Thomas' death will never be an option for Dr. Brooks,
but actually an urge and motivation to remain steadfast in bringing back her son,
no matter what difficulties it may face
As soon as Thomas unfolds most of his memories in Nolan's body,
he sends Ava to Dr.Garry, intending to rebuild his real family and old life in the apartment
He remarks that he needs to send Ava for no declared duration for the betterment of each party,
since they are not related at all
Though Ava becomes confused, she still manages to understand, and agrees to the plan of her dad
Dr.Garry even respects his decision,
and comforts him in the best way possible, regardless of the changing behavior of Nolan
Thomas goes to the apartment nervously;
and the only thing that runs in his mind is to make things right
From being an abusive husband and a failed son,
Thomas plans to transform his life, and portrays a new beginning
He slowly introduces himself to Miranda about how he relates to her;
and she is not convinced but confused
He begins telling stories and previous experiences as a couple, which enlightens her
But it is now over; Miranda has already moved on, and is trying now to forget Thomas
To think that he is in a wrong frame, Thomas tolerates the fact,
by trying to live and disregard the life and obligations of Nolan and as Nolan
The moment Thomas witnesses how his wife refuses him, this provokes his anger and violent behavior
So he attacks Miranda
Miranda knocks Thomas out, before this man can come to their daughter
Thomas finds himself in a road near Dr.Gary's house
Ava notices the blood on the head of his father Nolan, who is now ruled by Thomas
Later, Thomas confronts his mother, Dr.Brooks,
after seeing a vision of a twisted man crawling in a reflection
After what Ava and Gary discover, they quickly follow Thomas in the lab of Dr.Brooks
Gary determines that Nolan now has false memories;
and they need to go to the lab to stop the experimentation, and claim the actual and original Nolan
The procedure with the black box begins again to settle the memories of Thomas to Nolan's system finally
The only way to do this is to kill and eliminate the creepy, twisted man,
who appears to be crawling in any memory
Thomas shifts to the apartment's specific memory,
and sees an approaching man with a twisted figure and unrecognizable face
As the creepy creature gets closer to Thomas, the image becomes vividly comprehensible,
only to learn that this is Nolan's remnant and memory
We can then conclude here that Nolan becomes an unwilling vessel of Thomas' memory and identity
Since the movie began,
it was Thomas's thoughts and memories until Nolan refuses to be overpowered by it
A fight occurs in the labyrinth of consciousness between the inner self of Thomas and Nolan
When Thomas is about to stab the vision of Nolan to end Nolan's identity finally,
Ava's voice awakens the atmosphere of the black box; and Nolan's inner self recognizes it
Thomas attempts to kill that figure again
but his wife Miranda appears in the vision; and he suddenly remembers the cause of his death,
which is his wife, who accidentally pushed him in the stairs for self-defense
Thomas feels heartbroken, and decides to exit Nolan's consciousness and goes into the dark
The movie ends with Nolan regaining his consciousness and reuniting with Ava and Dr.Gary
In contrast, Dr.Brooks gets dismissed from the hospital due to her controversial procedure
At the film's closure, Dr.Brooks strives to redeem the data of his son's memory again,
waiting for the next patient whom she can crown the black box again
Just like how everyone conquers everything with love,
a mother's love in the character of Dr.Brooks is more than willing to combat the risks
and achieve the unknown
The movie essentially entails how love can be a mantra of an identity crisis,
and how elegy can be the pillar of vulnerabilities, pushing us to mobilize disastrous realities
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