Half a million US dollars was spent to make this movie!
The movie seemed to have an intriguing plot, but other than that, it was badly done, with limited scenes, bad filming techniques, bad performing, etc.
Plot: Jacob (Robert Olding) had a pretty wife (name Carmen) and an ordinary life. Suddenly, he had weird dreams: he was in a strange and cheap hotel room; his hands got tied; and he was tortured by a good looking lady who was not his wife or anyone he had ever met. Woke up, he began to compare facts and dreams. Result: he found out that there was one week of his life (which happened recently) when his wife, friends had no idea where he was, for no one could contact him.
The dreams kept coming, showing continuous events that happened during the week that he could not account for in real life.
In this dream, there was a small teddy bear (a strange item in a hotel room which was almost bare of everything else!).
He lost his job not soon after that, and his friends, wife, everyone around him began to think he was not right in the head. He began to think that his wife must have been the one that played tricks on him, tried to confuse him.
Then friends of his family began to be suspicious of both him and his wife (about this couple's sanity), for there was some events that husband and wife seemed to be sure that really happened, which involved their family's friends, but the friends were dead sure that no such thing ever happened.
Fact: Jacob was about to be executed for his sin of smothering a little girl name Carmen, to death, while acting as her babysitter. Turned out that he, a teenager at the time, had often sexually abused her, while promising her that he would marry her once she became an adult. The night it happened, the father of the little girl returned home suddenly, and in fright, Jacob told Carmen to be quiet. Carmen had different idea, she did not like to be molested any more, and decided to call out for her father. Jacob tried to stop her from making any noise, and perhaps accidentally smothered her to death.
In jail, he began to confuse between truth and imagination. Perhaps he tried his best to excuse his own sin (be it intentional or accidental)? In his mind, Carmen was not dead, and that they did grow up, really marry each other.
- The strange lady whom he met in his dream, who always tortured him in the strange and empty hotel room, was in fact, the replacement of his criminal defense lawyer. (His criminal defense lawyer left for her maternity leave). He was contented with his imagination: that he married Carmen, and lived an ordinary life as everyone else)...
- His family friends turned out to be:
+ a fellowed inmate who was jailed next to him, who frequently throwing abuses at him, cridiculed him over his imagining wife and life.
+ his criminal defense lawyer.
Perhaps a better director and cast, could make a better movie than the existed one?
