THE EYE – A movie review

No classes tomorrow and so the kids and I were able to stay up late tonight and watched a really freaky movie on Star Movies – The Eye starring Jessica Alba. Jessica plays the lead character, Sydney Wells, a violinist who had been blind since she was a little girl of about five. Fifteen years later, Sydney decides to undergo a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. At first, her vision remains blurry but after a while, she is able to see clearly but at the same time she starts to experience some terrifying visions, in particular about a fire and many people dying. She begins to tell others about her visions but no one seems to believe her and think she is just not yet used to her new set of ‘eyes’. Her eye therapist though tends to believe her as he had conducted some research and thinks that some of the ‘memories’ of the past eye owner may have been passed on to Sydney, so at least, she now knows that she is not as crazy as some people believe. The two go on a quest to find Sydney’s eye donor and they end up in Mexico. The two soon discover that the images of fire and numerous deaths that Sydney had been seeing actually happened thru an industrial fire that the eye donor ‘saw’ and foretold. But she was unable to save the people from the accident and so she killed herself out of guilt. Sydney tries her best to put the spirit to rest and heads on home when her mission was accomplished. However, as they wait in traffic to cross the Mexican border, sees a ‘vision’ wherein a police chase ends with the fugitive’s vehicle crashing thru the border barriers and into a gasoline tanker, killing many people in the expressway. Sydney tries to get everyone to believe her ‘vision’ and get them off the expressway but to no avail. In the end, the tanker still explodes after being hit by the getaway car and Sydney was hit by flying glass and once again blinded. The last scene shows Sydney recovering at the hospital, blind but at least this time she has more or less come to accept and love her present condition. After all, who would want new ‘eyes’ if they come with extra ‘baggage’ that is quite frightening…who knows, her visions may become much worse and she would soon be seeing ghosts and other paranormal entities…oh dear, I would much rather be blind and content with what I have than have brand new eyes that see something far different and from a different ‘world’.