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Actors: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Crimson Rivers |
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A detective investigates the death of a man who was tortured. Another detective is investigating the breaking and entering of a school and cemetary. As they continue their separate investigations they discover that they are both looking for the same person. They team up and discover a Nazi-like plot to design a perfect race.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Up in an isolated University campus a dead body is found hanging from a cliff. The path of police officer (Reno) who is investigating the case, will cross the path of a local police officer (Cassel) who tries to find out who is responsible for the violations in the city's cemetery. It seems that both of them are hunting down the same criminal, stumbling from one to another gory murders, and that a young teacher is somehow connected to them. The carefully given clues lead to an unexpected end.
--Mary Savvidou, Resident Scholar
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A special investigator comes to a rather small town in the french mountains to help solve a murder mystery - a man is found hanging from a mountain, and his hands and eyeballs are gone. At the same time, a tough local cop is given the task of finding out who violated the tomb of a little girl who died in an accident many years ago. But was it really an accident? More victims appear in relation to the first case, and the special investigator finds out that all the victims have something to do with the local university, where students live and work with the professors in an almost entire world of their own. He runs across a woman who work at the university, asking questions she does not like to answer. It turns out that both the special investigator and the local cop are in fact working on the same case, or their cases are connected. They can only count on themselves, because the other local cops are rather stupid. It also turns out that the woman at the university has something to do with the whole thing, but what? And the university too, as it has a history of genetic manipulation and there are rumors of baby stealing as well. The two cops come close a few times before they actually get to the "bad guy", lots of running around and so on. The story is not that great, but the ending is somewhat delightfully surprising.
--Small Change, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Crimson Rivers |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller?
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- wild experiments on people
- bio manip. to get new abilities
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 50%
- 90%
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Kind of mystery?
- hard boiled/private eye
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- climbing on trails
- climbing with ropes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- building
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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