Vanishing Waves (2-Disc DVD)

VANISHING WAVES: A Visual Feast That Could've Used Better After-Dinner Talk
How we know what we know has always been an area of exploration that finds small audience interest in the art-house film scene. Pictures like 2004's ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND kinda/sorta tinkered with memory and memory loss, but I was largely turned off my its endless character quirks and curiously unaligned narrative focus. 1990's TOTAL RECALL with Arnold Schwarzenegger took the idea of implanting memories and stuck in it a big budget picture that probably worked best though it really glossed over the more cerebral elements in favor of box office success. Heading back into the 80's, there were some features more commercial in nature - 1983's BRAINSTORM and 1984's DREAMSCAPE - but they too were somewhat forgettable in that they tried to capitalize more on a capitalist or exploitative perspective too all of it.

For my tastes, VANISHING WAVES resembles in many ways 2013's UPSTREAM COLOR, though it comes at similar subject matter from an entirely different...

Vanishing Waves
Can we communicate with the dead? Perhaps since famous magician Houdini's death - probably the most famous case -, that is a question that has been craving for an answer, and not a good one, as far as I know, has been provided. Perhaps we can be more successful trying to establish contact with semi-death persons (comatose, that is). That is precisely the story behind the captivating, intriguing, and at times erotic (depending on what arouses you) "Vanishing Waves."

Lukas (Marius Jamploskis) is a young researcher who lives a steady and apparent tranquil life with his girlfriend. However, their calm days would be end soon, as Lukas volunteers to an experiment in the laboratory where he works. The senior scientists are trying to connect the minds - for a lack of a better word - of a normal, healthy person (Lukas), with that of a comatose one. In this case, they chose Aurora (Jurga Jutaite), a young, beautiful lady, who is in a comatose state. The experiment goes well, and...

GREAT movie.
I saw it in New York this last winter. Absolutely loved it.
Can't wait for my DVD to arrive in the mail so I could re-watch it again.

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