Images - Bringing Out the Dead

<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>Bringing Out the Dead</font> <br>by David Ng</font> <P><font size="6" color="#FFFFFF"><b>A</b></font>dapting Joe Connelly’s fragmented, deeply psychological novel <i>Bringing Out the Dead</i> for the screen has given filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader the opportunity to once again create a purely subjective experience. The literal images that flash by are the broken pieces of consciousness and dreams. We do not know how much of what we’re watching is real or hallucinated. And many scenes have a foot in both worlds, creating what Scorsese has termed a state of a "waking dream." All of Scorsese’s characters inhabit this purgatory. They are all descendants of the same tortured spirit. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>