Coma

Coma

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  • Genre: Thriller, Mystery
  • Release Date: 1978-01-06
  • Runtime: 113 minutes
  • : 6.757
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.757/10
6.757
From 439 Ratings

Description

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    The title has quite an intriguing double meaning here as an unnamed and typical young girl (Louise Labèque) finds herself confined to her bedroom - think COVID lockdown - with only her online community to sustain her. Most popular amongst the influencers is a woman called “Coma” (Julia Faure) who induces something akin to her name in the young woman as she gradually becomes indoctrinated into a culture that falls half way between dream and nightmare. She is soon struggling to distinguish between reality and fantasy thanks to the “Revealer” - a sort of psychological version of a replicator, with elements of hypnotism thrown in too. As her involuntary detention continues, we begin to wonder what might be left of the real girl at the end. This is quite a potent critique on modern day isolationism. On how young people’s existences are becoming less informed (and tempered) by real life experiences and more by manipulative social media. Even though she is warned of her gadget’s addictive powers, is she capable of resisting it’s convenient temptations? Alone, has she the desire or the strength? She has dolls that she meticulously arranges, but might they be surrogates for her emotions and real human friends - as if she we herself merely an infant and they the stars of a soap opera? My problem with this drama is that though it introduces some complex concepts of behaviour and modern day techno-ideology and it asks us lots of questions, in itself it offers us little by way of direction. It’s mostly left to us to assess and evaluate her scenario and do too much of the heavy lifting on our own, and I as a bit disappointed by that. I wasn’t bowled over by either Faure or Labèque or by the writing, but there is one scene with her equivalent of “Barbie” and “Ken” that would have been fun for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to act out! It’s provocative to watch, but oddly enough I think it might have made for a better book than a film.

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