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 EMR (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Danny McCullough, James Erskine / Actors: ... more  EMR (DVD) ... Keith Stie, Rebecca Greenwood (II) ... / DVD released 15 July, 2005 at Dogwoof Digital / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Londoner Adam Jones is stuck in a dead end job; lives alone with his cat and spends his free time obsessing over the latest conspiracy theories on the Internet. Taking an experimental drug for his epilepsy, manufactured by the Pfenal corporation, Adam begins suffering from seizures, black outs and terrifying visions. When he wakes up in a hotel room in Mexico missing a kidney, Adam becomes convinced that he's unwittingly stumbled into the middle of a conspiracy. Drugged by mysterious paramedics, Adam finds himself back in his London flat. Just as he assumes it's just been a bad dream, the pain of a scar on his back serves to convince him that something dark and disturbing is indeed happening. Worse still, Adam's one friend at work, Tracey, informs him that he's been missing from work for a week and as a result he's been fired. He turns to his doctor, but she seems to be overly zealous in prescribing the drug company's medication. His only confidant is his beautiful and mysterious Internet correspondent, whom he knows by her screen name CyberBunnyLily and who lives in San Francisco. With his reality becoming more and more fractured, and unable to trust anyone - let alone himself - Adam sets about trying to uncover the truth about the mysterious drug company Pfenal. The transatlantic connection seems ever more prominent in solving the mystery. Will he escape his torment and be united with his beloved Lily, and if so, at what cost? Just as he finally feels that he is able to rid himself of the ordeal of his medication, Adam finds himself confronted by two of the drug company's agents. And the reality of his situation turns out to be worse than his wildest conspiratorial nightmares. EMR weaves together a host of urban myths: from kidney-stealing, and alien-abduction, to manipulative drug corporations, this is a paranoiac's wonderland that winds its way, Rubik's cube-like, to its climax.Newest Review: ... especially to a young lady from San Francisco. She puts him onto a site, Truthteller.com, which has released info about a ... more ... drug, Protex E, and the company releasing it. He visits the site, is pretty much hypnotised by it and wakes up in a cheap and tawdry hotel room. He is covered in blood and discovers a long gash on his back, seemingly expertly stitched up. He has no recollection at all of how this happened. He runs from his hotel and finds himself in a Spanish speaking South American country. He makes it to a church only to collapse and wake up back in his own bed… his nightmare over… except the stitches are still there!
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EMR (DVD): Entrancing, Maddening & Rivetting (641 words)
by Ailran - written on 06.08.07 (Very useful, 134 readings)
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A number of years ago Mel Gibson starred in a film called Conspiracy Theory, a film with a great simple premise involving someone who believes in conspiracies. Sadly it backed out of the inherent possibilities of the idea and became just an average action/chase movie with an interesting plotline. No doubt this helped it money spinning wise but it could have been so much more than it was. EMR is what it could have been, a tale of a man’s descent into paranoia, into a delusional state of what is and what isn’t real. Dreams and reality are interchangeable as you wonder as much as the main character, Adam, does what the &*$% is going on! Adam is a ...
