Review of Dante 01

Dante 01 (2008)
7/10
Space Fiction loves to discover and re-discover Secret of Immortality over and over again
28 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The whole story goes by in a space shuttle which is being used as a medical research center, far away from the earth. 1 organization chief, 1 psychiatrist and 3 guardians are in charge of 7 convicts. Those convicts are chosen haphazardly from the world. They are all average human beings; some of them are murderers some of them are psychopaths. As the story progresses a genetic engineer woman comes to the space shuttle for a confidential experiment. While she was arguing with the psychiatrist on the case of conscience of making experiments over convicts' bodies, a new convict is been delivered to the space shuttle who is very strangely sick, dumb and hold on... No identity! This is Hint-1, he is identity-free. When I complete all the hints I found out from the film, I will explain them within the conclusion.

Hint-2: One of the mad convicts began believing that this sick, dumb and unknown mankind is the Messiah sent from God; and he gives him a name after a saint. Hint-3: By time, convicts fall apart into two confronting sides and turn against each other. 3 of them believe that the strange man came for help, the other 4 think that he brought only curse and hatred. Hint-4: After she gives a start to genetic experiments, the genetic engineer woman injects the immortality virus into some of the convicts' bodies via their operator genes of the cellular membranes. Right after she delivers them to their rooms, just before she is going to watch their behavioral change; our strange guy shows up and takes the immortality virus out of their bodies and injects it to himself. He does this while everyone is asleep. Thus he makes everybody thinks of him that he can heal people, and even he can vitalize a dead body. Hint-5: Soon everyone becomes believers of him. After a while the space shuttle loses its route and is dazed by the magnetic flow of a planet; then it comes to a crucial point to enter an ultra energy sphere. Our strange guy puts on an astronaut suit, jumps out to space, depletes all the energy of the sphere, then he sends the space shuttle back to Earth. During the moment he was depleting the energy of the sphere using the power of his spiritual immortality, the space shuttle turns upside down, forms "T" shape which references the crucifixion of Christ.

When you watch the end, you might think that the strange guy might be the Messiah as the mad convict guessed from the beginning.In fact who is this strange man? He has been delivered to the space shuttle without nobodies' knowledge. Is he a spy of a world-based confidential organization(like CIA or NSA) or is he a missionary of a secret and forbidden futuristic project(like discovering the secret of immortality). Either way no computer, no population data-based software would be able to sniff out his identity. But which one is right? How do we know? Do we have to take a guess? Do we have to write a new scenario out of it, just to understand it? Directing and writing of this movie completely fails at this point, leaving viewers' minds confused. This is not a proper story-layering structure. The second hint I found out indicates that viewers have to believe that the strange man is the Messiah, since his name is credited as Saint Georges, officially. If this guy is the Messiah how come does he carry the same virus that the genetic engineer woman wants to inject to everybody? Is this a coincidence or a logical mistake? Plus, if he is the Messiah why does he need to carry a virus in his body to heal the wounds and to vitalize the dead bodies? At that point director Caro contradicts himself. The third hint I found out reminded me the life of the 3 basic prophets who brought the scriptures of the 3 main religions, somehow! Also at the forth hint remember that only prophets be able to heal people.

Rather than the final of the movie, the moment we understood that the strange prophet has been sent there to prevent others from discovering the secret of the immortality must have been the actual final.

Despite the fact that the best technical aspects are failed, sounds and visual effects are enviable. The music score kept our attention in the movie. Art direction and cinematography was alright. In overall, plot was so effectively original for a feature film; seemed to have some inspiration from Russian "Parajanov's The Last Spring" with Tarkovsky essences, and carrying along within the well-known Alien genre space- horror cinema language it was not hard to watch.

Dante01 is the next and futuristic step of its genre. This is going to spread so much inspiration for cinema lovers and sci-fi movie makers in future, if it could be marketed in the right fields. Pay a very good attention, rewind as much as you need for details, and turn off the lights while watching. It's the only way to catch the joy of it.
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