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Title: Instinct (1999)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Ethan Powell | |
| Cuba Gooding Jr. | ... | Theo Caulder | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | Ben Hillard | |
| Maura Tierney | ... | Lynn Powell | |
| George Dzundza | ... | Dr. John Murray | |
| John Ashton | ... | Guard Dacks | |
| John Aylward | ... | Warden Keefer | |
| Thomas Q. Morris | ... | Pete | |
| Doug Spinuzza | ... | Nicko | |
| Paul Bates | ... | Bluto | |
| Rex Linn | ... | Guard Alan | |
| Rod McLachlan | ... | Guard Anderson | |
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Kurt Smildsin | ... | Guard #1 |
| Jim R. Coleman | ... | Guard #2 | |
| Tracey Ellis | ... | Annie | |
Nearly two years after having gone amiss in Africa, renowned anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell is caught committing a crime and subsequently imprisoned in a Florida mental institution, where aspiring psychiatrist Dr. Theo Calder takes over his important case. Dr. Powell, who has been with a group of gorillas during all that time, is not talking at all and seems to be living in a dreamworld. Very slowly, Dr. Calder manages to reach Ethan Powell and starts finding out why Ethan killed two of the poachers. Yet Theo's case is not just about why the murders have happened, but also about how Dr. Powell became the being he is in the first place. With Ethan's silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankind's control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence can't be found so easily. Ethan changes Theo's view of things forever. Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
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Dear reader,
this movie is fully packed with meaning. The title gives out very little about the true nature of this remarkable work of Jon Turteltaub. Apart from the excellent acting of both the main characters (Hopkins and Cuba Gooding) and the secondary roles, the movie is based on a script of rare quality.
This movie is certainly not going to be appreciated by everyone, certainly not by those unable to honestly look into the modern society and the workings of it, and their role in that society. This movie asks for soul-searching, and unless you are ready for it, unless you are ready to "give up control", you most probably won't like it.
I did like it, thanks also to the fact that I already have meditated on the issues the film raises, earlier in my life. This film is capable of polarizing, because it contains a lot of unpleasant truth, that humanity should accept in order to really advance. This is an important movie, a very strong statement on today's society's relationshipt to nature and it's inhabitants. In the same time, it's analyzing the question of imprisonment and the treatment of inmates. It also raises questions about friendship and loyalty in a way never seen before.
If you have not seen the movie and wonder whether you should, I will give you a hint without spoiling anything: if you didn't like Princess Mononoke, you will not like this movie, either.