March 22, 2007
This is the second movie of Sandra Bullock that I have seen dealing with time. Both times, it was love story, since Sandy is a master of the romance genre. There was "Lake House" last year. And this time, it's "Premonition."
**** SPOILER WARNING*****
Linda Hanson was having a humdrum regular day, when her daily routine was shattered by a policeman at her door, telling her about her husband's death in car accident. The next day, she wakes up to see him alive and well in the kitchen having breakfast. The next day, she wakes up to see Lithium on her sink, people dressed for a funeral and her daughter with a face full of stitches. Then the next day, she wakes up to see him taking a shower! Linda begins to realize that she is living two timelines, one before, and the other, after her husband's death. So then she begins to intervene to try to prevent the death from happening. However, there were tragic consequences to her interventions.
I have learned from watching these timeline movies in the past not to think to much about them afterwards, or else you would end up puzzled and confused, and riddled with your thought-up plotholes.
If you treat her first day as the premonition referred to in the title, the way the events unfolded seem to be logical, as Linda's interventions have varying effects on what actually happens. But again, I don't want to look to hard.
It is not difficult to like a Sandra Bullock movie. I felt that liked "Lake House" more than this one. Maybe because of the lighter fantasy treatment of "Lake House", compared to the heavier, more sinister feel of this one. I would like to think that the story of "Premonition" was actually more cleverly thought out.
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