Thought Crimes caught my eye while looking around the video store, and having never heard of it, decided to take a punt and grab it. At the very least it would be something to watch at work.
It's a tad short (only 84 minutes long), but manages to be really quite gripping. The basic premise is that of a girl who goes to her senior prom, starts hearing voices (who doesn't?) and is diagnosed as schizophrenic. She is there for eight years before the Government takes her away from the clinic and aides her in realising she is not crazy, but a rather useful legal weapon.
It occurred to me (when I saw the box) that it might be something Orwellian, or a rip off of Minority Report, but as one IMDB commentator points out, it's more of a distant prequel to Minority Report.
The world was believable, and the actors generally did quite a decent job with there roles. There are plenty of little "if you watched you'd see that coming" sort of thing going on.
The telepathy is well played, they do a very good job of making it feel real. Navi Rawat pulls off this character who is only coming to grips with the fact that the voices coming into her brain are real thoughts of real people.
- Would I own it on DVD? If I see it, yes.
- Will I watch it again? Yes.
- My rating? 7/10.
- It's category? Thriller.
