Genre: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
(6 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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Release: 6 November 2009
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Have you ever watched a snail crawl? It’s painfully sluggish pace can leave you quite frustrated and the same sluggishness applies to this film, The Box, a sci fi morality play from Richard Kelly, the creator of Donnie Darko.
The plot, if there were any, revolves around Norma (played by Cameron Diaz), a teacher at a pricey school with a limp and an addiction for the pain pills and Arthur (James Marsden), a failed wannabe astronaut.
The story set in 1976, features Arthur and other players head over heels into rocket science, is an incoherent concoction of plots that leave the audiences mystified and stymied. One such mystery are the two rejection letters sent by NASA to Arthur – the first letter sent to his work address and the other to his home. Can you explain why?
The story centers around the financially distressed couple – Norma and Arthur and their precocious son Walter (played by Sam Oz Stone). To make matters worse, Norma learns that the tuition discount will be discontinued on account of Norma making a bungling mistake – that of interrupting her lecture to show her bum foot to a student.
The confused plot thickens with the entry of Arlington Steward (played by Frank Langella), a missing scientist who is the box man. How? Arlington, after mysteriously having avoided death as reported earlier, drops off a package wrapped in brown paper on Arthur and Norma’s porch. Without thinking, the couple open this package as if expecting a gift to be delivered from an anonymous friend.
And here is a surprise waiting in store. Inside this box is another, smaller box with a big red button that Norma and Arthur have to press to earn a million dollars tax free. Now the catch is that if their greed gets the better of them and they do press the button, someone somewhere will die – somebody that Norma and Arthur don’t know. But they decide to press the red button nonetheless and go for the million dollars anyways.
The already confused plot goes completely awry from hereon with inexplicable happenings that only add to the ever increasing pile of unsolved mysteries that the movie throws at audiences – Norma and Arthur living in a motel at night and spending the day in the library, the people in the neighborhood dying mysteriously are just some of the mysteries worth a look from Nancy Drew.
It is difficult to believe that Kelly, the creator of Donnie Darko could even conceptualize such a contorted plot to say the least. While his flashes of brilliance come through occasionally, the film as a whole simply fails to rise to the occasion and leaves you so bewildered at the end that you wish you hadn’t watched The Box.
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