9/24/2023 0 Comments Phenomena movie with john travolta![]() PHENOMENON is rated PG and doesn’t have violence or depicted sex, but it isn’t geared at all for children. While stating that humans need love and acceptance, it champions the enlightened being, a superhuman without recognition of it as a gift from God. PHENOMENON contains some of the best depiction of human emotion this year. PHENOMENON deals with paranormal abilities, but it has a very natural, albeit unrealistic, explanation for George’s telekinetic powers and sensory perceptions. He is put into the hospital and finds out the source is not aliens from space, but something a lot more natural yet equally frightening. Eventually, he sees another light in the sky causing him to blackout. ![]() Yet, as he does teach others, he finds he is alienating himself even more. George decides the only way he can manage his knowledge is to share it with others, for the betterment of humanity. He becomes very intelligent at an incredible rate. He recovers quickly, but soon finds that he is able to read and learn much more quickly. ![]() On his 37th birthday, he sees a bright light in the sky that knocks him down. Travolta plays George Malley, a simple man living in a small town. But yikes, what looked like a sunny smash hit is rained out.From the director of WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, comes PHENOMENON a warm movie starring John Travolta. There are, too, nice roles for Whitaker and Duvall as his loyal buddies, and it is refreshing to see smartness linked with goodness and heroism. The saving grace is Travoltas entirely captivating performance, which keeps you on board long after the plot has derailed. The film is unsatisfyingly different from what it seemed to be. The last half hour reveals that whats afoot is nothing like what one either hopes. George uses his linguistic, scientific and electromagnetic magic to do good deeds save a life, protect the environment, make a match for lonesome best bud Nate (Whitaker) but people turn away from him in fear and suspicion of what he has become.Īlas, the mystery, wonder and delightful complications screech to a halt with a dismaying revelation that is grim at best and, most will feel, a cruel cheat. ![]() ![]() When he comes to, his intelligence begins to accelerate as billed, phenomenally and his newly developed genius is accompanied by strange and remarkable powers, such as telekinesis. That night, while looking at the stars, George spots a UFO-like light that zaps him unconscious. His sweetness and kindness make him beloved, however (at least by all but the sorrowful divorcee Sedgwick, with whom he is smitten) and his 37th birthday is an occasion on which the townfolk party hearty. George Malley (Travolta) is a cheerful, simple man with limited gifts: he can fix cars and grow a garden. Even the central characters name evokes Its A Wonderful Life sentiment. Face it, there has never been much of an audience for whimsical tragedy.ĭeceptively, the first hour and some of Gerald DiPegos screenplay, beguilingly directed by While You Were Sleepings Turteltaub, is a Capraesque charmer, busy with smalltown neighbourliness, comedy and dogged wooing. The marketing campaign for this fantasy drama tells us Some things in life just cant be explained. Thats misleading advertising, since the films colossal boo-boo is in its ill-judged insistence on explaining everything, and in a way few will appreciate. ![]()
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