The kittymistress went all the way to Toronto International Film Festival to see this one and she never even brought back tee shirts for the four large kitties. Here's her version of what she saw or, at least what she thought she saw.....
Trauma is the story of Ben who wakes from a coma to find that he's been in a car accident and his wife is dead. At first, we see Ben suffering both loss and guilt over being the one to survive. His pain is palpable as his works through his grief with the help of an unseen phsyciatrist.
As the film moves along, we start to find out a few more things about Ben and see that maybe things are exactly as they appear to be. Around the time of his wife's death, the murder of a much-loved rock star has occurred and it seems that Ben may have had something to do with it. Now, Ben is starting to move from being someone we feel sympathic toward to someone we start to view with an uneasy suspicion.
Ben moves into an apartment in an old hospital that is still in the process of being renovated in to suites in an attempt to get on with his life. But he begins to see his wife, Alyssa, everywhere. Is she really alive or are these visions merely a product of Ben's guilt-ridden mind? He meets Charlotte (Mena Survari), a neighbour/landlady but also a New Age type who is into crystals and reading peoples' auras. She convinces Ben to go see a physic so he can contact Alyssa. The physic tells him that his wife is not dead even though he has seen what he thinks is video tape footage of her funeral.
As the story moves along, the audience becomes more and more suspicious of what Ben is actually seeing and what he is imagining. There are several clues along the way which suggest that some or perhaps all of the events have taken place strictly in Ben's head. |
