Is ``The Cell'' as beautiful as a sewing machine and a bat umbrella accidentally meeting on an autopsy table?

"The Cell" synopsis

Catherine, a psychologist, was researching techniques to penetrate people's subconscious and dreams. Then she receives a request to enter the consciousness of comatose serial killer Karl Starger. Stargar abducts women and imprisons them in a device that automatically drowns them over time. In order to save the woman, Stargar's consciousness asks her to locate the place of confinement, but...

In Japan, ``art'' is taught in school classes, but many people mistakenly think that it is the study of ``beauty'' because it has the word ``beauty'' in its name.

In English-speaking countries, the same class is called "art," which has a strong meaning as an expression "method." "Art" includes beauty, but it is by no means limited to that. Art is not only political statements, but also expressions of grotesquery and death.

Index

• The surreal world of “The Cell”
• Artworks cited in “The Cell” Part 1
• Artworks cited in “The Cell” Part 2
• Artworks cited in “The Cell” Part 3
• Eiko Ishioka's work
• The charm of art and the charm of “The Cell”

The surreal world of “The Cell”

Peter, a detective, appears before Catherine, who uses a special device that allows her to enter another person's consciousness to provide therapy for a traumatized child. She captures Carl Starger, a serial killer who targets only women, but when she finds him, he is in a coma, alive but unconscious. What's more, Stargar seems to have kidnapped a woman just before she collapses and is imprisoning her in an isolation device that slowly drowns her, but the location is unknown. So, he asks Stargar to enter his consciousness and find out where he is being held.

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Katherine enters Stargar's consciousness to help the woman, but the deeply twisted world of Stargar's consciousness is an unimaginably strange place.

``The Cell'' quotes and imitates many works of art in order to express the world within consciousness. As a result, although it is a psycho killer movie, it is full of fantastical visual images. We will focus on the artworks cited in ``The Cell'' and elucidate the scenes depicted.

Artworks cited in “The Cell” Part 1