Showing posts with label frankie and alice. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

MOVIE REVIEW - FRANKIE AND ALICE


Still from Frankie and Alice
Despite showing lots of promise, it doesn't appear Frankie and Alice ever got the proper push, running out of steam this Awards season. Centered around Frankie (Berry), the Story centers around an Exotic Dancer who inexplicably suffers a fit of rage one night. Arrested, she is then admitted to the Hospital by a Psychiatrist, Dr. Oz (Stellan Skarsgård), not to be confused with the one seen on Daytime Television.

In observing Frankie, Dr. Oz witnesses dramatic shifts in her personality but realizes this might be much more complex than it appears at first. These different personalities have different backgrounds and have an awareness of one another with varying levels of IQ. Oz finally diagnoses her with Dissociative Disorder, but will he manage to convince Frankie (and the fragments of her) to remain under his care before she is sabotaged by one of her more overbearing and toxic personalities? We are given pieces of the Puzzle in carefully administered doses before coming to understand how it is that Frankie has reached this point in her life.