Blink: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

blink: music from the original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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One of those iffy medical thrillers, about the aftereffects of corneal transplants on a blind musician (Madeleine Stowe). Doctors tell her that until the transplant fully takes she'll only be seeing shadowy images--and even then, she'll see things that will take a while to register on her brain. Which is troublesome when she witnesses a murder but can't quite make sense of what she's seen. Because the images only become clear after the fact, she can't put them in the kind of chronological order that will make her a useful eyewitness for investigating police detective Aidan Quinn. Toss in a romance between Quinn and Stowe, mix in appropriate dollops of suspense, and you wind up with a fairly mediocre mystery by director Michael Apted, enlivened only by the chemistry between the two leads. --Marshall Fine

From The New Yorker
Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe), who plays fiddle in a Chicago band, is sharp, independent, and sexually wise; she is also blind, which in movie code means "vulnerable.'' And so, after a funny and suggestive start, Michael Apted's thriller slowly goes about its business of turning her into a victim. Emma has her vision restored in an operation, and is immediately rewarded with the sight of a murder suspect. With the villain on her trail, a cop named Hallstrom (Aidan Quinn) is assigned to protect her, a standard setup for falling in love. "Blink'' is a dud romance, and it feels pretty ordinary as a thriller-the time is right, surely, for a moratorium on serial killers. Nevertheless, the movie remains in touch with fascinating feelings: the blind Emma has a kind of enclosed strength that seems to leak away as she adjusts to the visible world. It should have been an ideal part for Stowe, who is gathering pace with every film; add this one to "Short Cuts'' and "Last of the Mohicans,'' and you sense a woman swaying between a full heart and a controlling wit. But Apted never gives her the space she needs; only in a few scenes, aided by the smart and reliable Laurie Metcalf, does she really open our eyes. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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Blink: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

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Blink: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Manufacturer: Milan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1994-01-18

Tracks:

The Boys And The Babies/Is Craig Here? - The Drovers
Emma's Eyes
Bumps In The Night
What Is Beautiful?
When Fortune Turns Her Wheel - The Drovers
Witness On The Run
On The Floor
Open Your Eyes
Escape From Illusion
Clean Hands
The Blinds Come Down
The Eyes You Stole
John & Emma's Theme
Insulated Man - The Drovers

Customer Reviews:

Blink.......2007-05-07

A lot of suspense and mystery as a woman tries to retore her eyesight through surgery from a childhood incident. After the first surgery, she begins to see images following the murder of her upstairs neighbor.

Pretty Good Thriller.......2007-02-24

If you're looking for a decent thriller to watch for a couple of hours then Blink is a good choice. It's not a spectacular movie, or one which you would probably want to watch again and again, but it is entertaining and worth seeing.

The best thing about this movie is Madeleine Stowe playing the blind woman, Emma Brody, who is given a transplant operation to help her see again. While her sight is returning she witnesses a murder committed by a brutal serial killer and becomes his next target. Stowe plays her character really well, making the blind scenes look genuine and making you care about her future. Aidan Quinn was OK in his role as Detective John Hallstrom, the police detective investigating the serial killer case who (surprise, surprise) falls for Emma Brody. My main problem was that Hallstrom's role wasn't really appealing to me. He was an extroverted womaniser before he met Emma, and he never really matured from this point. In the first scene of the movie Hallstrom gets drunk in a bar and tries to get Emma's attention, not realising that she is blind. I thought Hallstrom seemed like a moron in this scene and it didn't really bode well for the rest of the film or the developing relationship between them. I was actually much more intrigued by Hallstrom's police partner Thomas Ridgely, played by the quieter James Remar. The only problem with Emma's character is that the story demands that she does a couple of silly things, such as slipping away from her police bodyguard in the middle of the night and other unnecessary actions that nobody sensible would do when being hunted by a killer.

The plot is pretty standard stuff although it is shot well and the acting is good. The murderer never seems that scary until the final couple of scenes, when he becomes much more realistic. Overall, this is a good film and I recommend it for people looking for a decent thriller with a romantic subplot. It won't blow you out of the water, but it will keep you happy enough while you're watching it.

about the movie Blink...............2006-05-31

Singapore videoshops is selling this title of film/DVD which I've grabbed a copy to view...hee hee and here are the infors..
Emma is a blind person in this movie which her eye site was latr restored but still have blurry images and hallucination of murder. She is the only person whom saw her neighbour get killed and she must find her way to find out the killer before the killer get her. This movie and story contains sexual content & kill scene which is recommended to those whom are interested in this this genre of film/DVD.

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no title.......2006-03-17

I enjoyed this very much. Of course, I have always loved Aiden Quinn, a Chicago boy who's been around a long time, and who I last saw in that great Friday night TV show that, drats, got cancelled, about a minister and his family. He was wonderful in Barry Levinson's "Avalon", and Madelaine Stowe was in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" as Tim Robbins' wife. They both fit together well here, even thought she exudes more class than he. There's something so "homebody' about Quinn. This was his first big lead, and he handled it well. The romance is great. Much like "Wait Until Dark", yet Stowe is far from the hapless woman. She is very feisty, very strong. The ending was sappy, but the rest was good. Filmed in Chicago. Look of the picture was dark and gritty - very film noir, except for the ending which was filmed in morning light. To be fair, the Chicago Tribune critic didn't think Quinn's cop was written as effective at all - that he was completely inept. Maybe I missed something, or she knows more about police work than I, or am I just lured by his blue eyes? SPOILER - --- And I couldn't quite follow the leap Quinn made as to the murderer being after victims who had transplants from one girl. How did he get to that? -------

I SEE YOU...SORT OF.......2004-11-18

A brilliant performance from Madeline Stowe elevates BLINK in an otherwise slow moving, at times muddled, movie. Stowe plays a blind violinist who receives a corneal transplant that results in her having delayed perceptions, that is seeing things that may have happened a day or so before. This involves her in the murder of a young woman who lives above her, and ultimately brings her to meet Aidan Quinn, an egotistical young detective, who is assigned to the case, and ultimately ends up falling in love with her.
Michael Apted's direction sometimes gets in the way of true suspense, the middle of the movie seeming to slow down, and the killings take second place to the love affair. A red herring is thrown in and you might swallow it, but the identity of the killer once revealed may come as a surprise.
Stowe and Quinn have a good chemistry and good support comes from James Remar and Peter Friedman, but it is Madeleine's marvelous performance that enlightens this film.

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