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Action/Adventure
"Coma" is one of those
movies which for some reason made a powerful impression
on me as a kid. Not through its story line, the acting
or Geneviève Bujold(I was still too young to
appreciate these "aspects" :-) ), but through
an overall atmosphere. Such that, upon reviewing 20
years later, certain scenes trigger memories and almost
puts me back into that couch as a 7-8 year old.
In "Coma", it was in particular the
image of the "Jefferson Institute", there's
probably no movie featuring a more effective and suggestive
modern-style horror house. For me, the "Jefferson
Institute" complex perfectly impersonates and
clenches the feeling that this intelligent thriller
is trying to get accross. By its architecture and
desertedness, it suggests sterility, impersonality,
loneliness and the feeling of an industrial complex.
The sterility of a medical system that does well in
the technical aspect, but features a growing impersonality
that makes it miss its primary goal: to make people
feel good.
The loneliness of Bujold, who is
rather assumed by everyone to be paranoid than to
be believed, even by her boyfriend. And the industrial
feeling of a healthcare system that doesn't exist
to cure people, but to keep itself alive as an industry
(=profitable).
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