Nicolas Cage is an ambulance paramedic who has not saved a single life for months. People have been dying in his arms for too long, one after the other, and his psyche can no longer bear it. He no longer feels like a hero who saves lives, but like a helpless witness to death. As he sinks into alcoholism, the voices and faces of "victims" appear more and more often. He is mostly haunted by Rose, a seventeen-year-old girl for whose death he feels personally responsible, and guilt drives him to madness.
"Bringing Out the Dead" takes us through several painful nights of an ambulance cruising the streets of New York. We will meet several paramedics, who approach this job very differently and try to cope with the stress and transience of life in various ways. While one experiences the whole thing as an adrenaline roller coaster, the other turns to religion, and our hero seeks salvation in alcohol. In the filth of the metropolis, we meet a variety of interesting and crazy characters, who at the same time provide this drama with comic relief and instill chill in the bones. And there is also Patricia Arquette, a former drug addict, the daughter of one of the victims, who slips into an unusual symbiosis with our hero.
What to expect from Scorsese's film, which is almost independently presented by Nicolas Cage ... "Bringing Out the Dead" is a rather harrowing drama, spiced with a dose of black humor, which combines the surreal and eccentric story and atmosphere of Scorsese's "After Hours" with the emotion, energy, and performance of Cage's "Leaving Las Vegas". A very unusual achievement that, I believe, many will not like, but if you like at least one of these two movie legends, don't skip it.
7,5/10.
"Bringing Out the Dead" takes us through several painful nights of an ambulance cruising the streets of New York. We will meet several paramedics, who approach this job very differently and try to cope with the stress and transience of life in various ways. While one experiences the whole thing as an adrenaline roller coaster, the other turns to religion, and our hero seeks salvation in alcohol. In the filth of the metropolis, we meet a variety of interesting and crazy characters, who at the same time provide this drama with comic relief and instill chill in the bones. And there is also Patricia Arquette, a former drug addict, the daughter of one of the victims, who slips into an unusual symbiosis with our hero.
What to expect from Scorsese's film, which is almost independently presented by Nicolas Cage ... "Bringing Out the Dead" is a rather harrowing drama, spiced with a dose of black humor, which combines the surreal and eccentric story and atmosphere of Scorsese's "After Hours" with the emotion, energy, and performance of Cage's "Leaving Las Vegas". A very unusual achievement that, I believe, many will not like, but if you like at least one of these two movie legends, don't skip it.
7,5/10.