Thanks for few days break and I was a couch Rice Bowl , never was a Couch Potato Chips for days.
What I did is watching movie channels.
Yes. I had no chance to watch New released movies in U.S for 15 years.
Then , there is no movie channels contract TV always in my living space since I came at U.S.
Finally, at yesterday . . . I met " Powder " . I was moved and impressed .
It is rare to happen for me , sure because I am not Movie lover. Just I like to watch them.
I never was impressed when I seen TV shows. Just fun or OK or dislike is my feeling.
_______Movie, Powder has a universal point of view for the positive link of Nature Energy and Human Energy.
That is no hunting and non terrible horror.
What I felt at the base of story is a missing love, missing link of mankind with other beings and Nature.
Even a same sex and same sex , husband and wife , fathers and children have lost each other`s link.
That is a lost of energy connection, mind relation. Why ?
I think most man kind lost for the link with natures , that is why easy to lose connection each other at a final Earthy life stage.
Powder feels pain when he feels other`s pain.
That must be the true connection of mankind with others and natures.
Did we lost its link forever ? ______ or Can we take it back ?
When I got a mind of Powder, I had tears . . . Powder had so much pain , sadness and deep love for people around him.
He could not take such emotions anymore, so , he willed to be into One , Energy of Nature.
It came for taking him away from a man`s world. Happy ending.
All of above are my understanding for the movie , Powder.
Powder could be the model of the one kind of our future child on Earth.
We may see many high IQ children soon. Are you ready to meet ?
A last scene tells me about the real miracle what is all beings able to be going back, _____
_______ fusing into Energy of Nature when really truly our mind are the part of Nature.
Powder came up at very right timing before this 21 century as the crisis epoch , Nature might give up on us if we lose thankful mind to Nature.
There are many points of how human being had lost , in vain and living with out of a balanced mind in the story of Powder .
I never had reading the book of it . . . even so , Powder in a movie got my tears.
Take look it , if you don`t know Powder yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Powder-Mary-Steenburgen/dp/630542845X
Powder (film)
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| Powder | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Victor Salva |
| Produced by | Roger Birnbaum, Daniel Grodnik |
| Written by | Victor Salva |
| Starring | Sean Patrick Flanery Jeff Goldblum Mary Steenburgen Lance Henriksen Brandon Smith Bradford Tatum |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Jerzy Zielinski |
| Editing by | Dennis M. Hill |
| Studio | Caravan Pictures |
| Distributed by | Hollywood Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 27, 1995 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $30,862,156 |
The film questions the limits of the human mind and body while also displaying our capacity for cruelty; it raises hope that humanity will advance to a state of better understanding.
Since its release, the film has grossed approximately $31 million worldwide.
[edit]Plot summary
Jeremy Reed (Sean Patrick Flanery), whose nickname is Powder, is an albino who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him.
Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abnormally when he is around them, as well as when he becomes emotional.
The electrical charge also prevents hair from growing on his body.
Jeremy's mother was struck by lightning while pregnant with him;
she died shortly after the strike, but Jeremy survived.
His father disowned him shortly after his premature birth, and he was raised by his grandparents.
Jeremy lived in the basement and worked on their farm but never left their property,
learning everything he knew from books.
He is taken from his home when his grandfather is found dead of natural causes.
Jessie Caldwell (Mary Steenburgen), a child services psychologist called in by Sheriff Doug Barnum (Lance Henriksen), takes him to a boy's home because he is now effectively a ward of the state.
Donald finds out that Powder has supernatural powers as well as the highest IQ in the history of mankind.
On a hunting trip with his schoolmates, Powder is threatened with a gun by John Box (Bradford Tatum), an aggressive student who views him as a freak.
Before John can fire, a gun goes off in the distance and everyone rushes to see that Harley Duncan (Brandon Smith), one of Doug's deputy who is hunting with the boys, has shot a doe, which is now dying.
Anguished by the animal's death, Powder touches the deer and Harley, inducing in Harley what the students assume is a seizure.
Harley tells Doug that Powder had caused him to feel the pain and fear of the dying deer, and he cannot bring himself to take another life.
Through Powder, the sheriff learns that his wife clings onto life because she didn't want to leave without her wedding ring on her finger and without him reconciling with his estranged son, Steven (Tom Tarantini).
She tells him that Steven found the ring and it has been sitting in a silver box on her nightstand throughout the entire movie.
Doug then places the ring on his wife's finger and reconciles with Steven, letting his wife die peacefully.
Powder meets Lindsey Kelloway (Melissa Lahlitah Crider), a romantic interest, but their relationship is broken by Lindsey's father (Woody Watson).
Before the interruption, he tells Lindsey that he can see the truth about people: that they are scared and feel disconnected from the rest of the world, but in truth are all connected to everything that exists.
Powder goes back to the juvenile facility and packs away his belongings, planning to run away to his deceased grandparents' farm.
He pauses in the gym to stare at a male student washing, noticing the latter's luxurious head of hair as well as body hair which he himself lacks, and is caught at it by John Box, who accuses him of homosexuality.
John steals Jeremy's hat and taunts him, but Powder reveals that John's words mimic what his stepfather said before beating him when he was 12, further angering him.
John and the other boys humiliate Powder, stripping him naked and taunting him.
His powers begin to manifest by pulling at their metal buttons and any piercings.
Eventually a large spherical electric burst erupts throwing Jeremy in a mud puddle and everyone else to the ground.
His classmate John is found still, with his heart stopped.
Powder uses an electric shock to revive him.
In the final scene Powder returns to the farm where he grew up, now in probate with the bank, and finds that all of his possessions have been removed.
He is joined by Jessie, Donald and Doug, who persuade Powder to come with them to find a place where he will not be feared and misunderstood.
Instead, a thunderstorm arrives and he runs into a field where a lightning bolt strikes him,
and he disappears in a blinding flash of light.
[edit]Cast
- Mary Steenburgen as Jessie Caldwell
- Sean Patrick Flanery as Jeremy 'Powder' Reed
- Lance Henriksen as Sheriff Doug Barnum
- Jeff Goldblum as Donald Ripley
- Brandon Smith as Deputy Harley Duncan
- Bradford Tatum as John Box
- Susan Tyrrell as Maxine
- Melissa Lahlitah Crider as Lindsey Kelloway (as Missy Crider)
- Ray Wise as Dr. Aaron Stripler
- Esteban Powell as Mitch
- Reed Frerichs as Skye
- Chad Cox as Zane
- Joe Marchman as Brennan
- Phil Hayes as Greg Reed (as Phillip Maurice Hayes)
- Danette McMahon as Emma Barnum
- Uncredited: D. Wolski (body double)
[edit]Reception
Powder received generally mixed reviews from critics.
It currently holds a rating of 47% ("Rotten") on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews, as of May 2011.
Caryn James of The New York Times described the film as "lethally dull" and said, "This intensely self-important film has no idea how absurd and unconvincing it is."[1]
[edit]Controversy
The film's production by Disney resulted in a controversy over the choice of director Victor Salva, who had been convicted of molesting a 12-year-old child actor in 1988. When Powder was released, the victim, Nathan Forrest Winters, came forward again in an attempt to get others to boycott the film in protest at Disney's hiring Salva. Since then, Disney has not picked up any more pictures by Salva.[2][3]
[edit]Remake
[edit]References
- ^ James, Caryn (October 27, 1995). "Powder (1995)". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ Infamy that has no end, Chicago Tribune, October 29, 1995
- ^ Victim speaks out against molester, TimesDaily, October 25, 1995
[edit]External links
- Powder at the Internet Movie Database
- Powder (film) at AllRovi
- Powder (film) at the TCM Movie Database
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