Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 121 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Nicolas Cage, John Goodman and Patricia Arquette
IMDb score:
6,8 (81.017)
Releasedate: 22 October 1999
Bringing Out the Dead plot
"Saving someone's life is like falling in love."
Frank drives an ambulance at night as a paramedic in Manhattan. After years of being confronted with illness and death, he is completely exhausted. Lately, he has been haunted by the thought of an 18-year-old girl he was unable to resuscitate. One night he meets Mary, an ex-junkie whose father has been hospitalized with a heart attack. But Frank can no longer handle it all and asks to be fired, which he is refused.
Actors and actresses
Frank Pierce
Mary Burke
Larry Verber
Marcus
Tom Wolls
Noel
Nurse Constance
Cy Coates
Rose
Kanita
Reviews & comments
flaphead
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- 856 messages
- 983 votes
Three nights in the life of a paramedic. So that means a pretty depressing movie. It is well illustrated what it does to a person, such work. It's not going to be completely documentary style, because halfway through we go into an almost hallucinatory part. That is also necessary, because it gradually became too dragging. It does give you a crazy feeling, but that's exactly what Scorsese meant. It's really madness. Cage's pitiful face helps then just fine.
To make the Hollywood complete, there has to be a little romance in it and that feels very forced. Just like the case of Rose, which keeps coming back to annoyance.
All in all, a fairly entertaining drama, with a touch of black humor here and there.
Translated from Dutch · View original
memorable
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- 173 messages
- 1674 votes
Scorsese's favorite theme - about wandering, decaying souls in search of redemption - is broached here again, but this time I find it too explicit. Too often man and horse are mentioned, while in my gratuitous opinion you should show instead of count (I know, a Dutch grammatical conjugation of an English word is very ugly). The theme in this forgotten Scorsese is therefore not presented in a particularly stylish and subtle way, which means that the film should also rely on the absurdist situations that the paramedics experience. The sales in that area can also be called meager, the genius is not approached in any of those scenes, let alone fulfilled. Although the hospital manager was allowed to be there with his bleating and Ving Rhames is also in shape when he starts a religious battle song.
The cinematography also had a few misses. Scorsese is known for his photographic games, but in this film I repeatedly wondered what this or that artifice was for. Any individual aware of Scorcese's body of work knows why the cameraman peeks into a deserted hallway when Travis is bumbling on the phone to a broken love. I have not been able to detect shots of such meaningful magnitude in this snack.
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