The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Blistering performances.

"Anna" or "Mindscape" is a story about John Washington (Mark Strong), a memory detective. John, like some others, have the ability to access people's memories with the use of a device and some ESP powers. Recently John has had some problems as his own memories about his dead wife have been interfering with his work.John has been given the job of Anna (Taissa Farmiga) the daughter of a very wealthy family. She is 16 and is on a hunger strike. She is extremely intelligent i.e. "off the charts" and gifted. Her step-father (Richard Dillane) believes she is "haunting." With a step-dad and a teen daughter, our minds always go there, but in this film we are dealing with a far more complex issue.John enters Anna's memories, which makes things more complex as her memories don't seem to fit the facts...or do they? The film is a mystery as we, like John, attempt to figure out if Anna is the victim or perpetrator.It is a good mystery. Anna draws us in with her intellect. The color red plays a role as the color of blood, roses, dark room, and John's beach house.May be too slow for some people. Parental Guide: 1-2 F-bombs. Brief photo nudity. Adult themes.

The trailer really got me into watching this movie. I like the idea of memory traveling, the casts, the vibe that the movie gave, the settings, and John's personal problem. I think this movie had a potential. However, towards the end there are some unexplained plots. It would be great if the movie also gave the detail for characters like: "mousey", the 3 girls, and John's wife so that people don't have to speculate or search for the movie detail.

Mindscape, given the less tantalizing title 'Anna' upon release, is a thinking person's thriller, and perhaps a little bit too much so. In the near future, or perhaps some alternate reality, some humans have evolved into pseudo clairvoyants who can enter the memories of other people and interact with their subjects within them. This talent has been trademarked by law enforcement, who employ 'memory detectives' to psychologically resolve conflict or retrieve otherwise out of reach information. Mark Strong is one such man, but his talents have dimmed a bit following the deaths of his family and a crippling stroke. Hauled out of retirement by his former boss (Brian Cox, sly as ever), he finds himself tasked with navigating the labyrinthine mind of Anna (Taissa Farmiga) a girl accused of murder and deemed a potential sociopath pending diagnosis. The film is deliberately dense and elliptical, not standard Hollywood fare at all, which is nice to see, but it also trips just a little bit on its own cognitive aspirations, especially in the third act. It's one of those pieces that's less like The Cell, and more like Vanilla Sky or Danny Boyle's Trance (two absolute favourites of mine) where so much of the story wades through muddy mindgames that at a certain point we think to ourselves 'well who's to say if any of this is actually real if it's gotten so complex', and indeed it's very difficult to piece together what has transpired here, especially with a conclusion that would require multiple viewings to even get an inkling. It's stylish as all hell though, given a clinical, steely grey palette punctuated by flourishes of startling red to show the capacity for violence lurking just out of sight within the opaque and enigmatic human psyche. The acting is top tier as well; Strong is reliably committed and intense, Farmiga is deeply disconcerting as the most fascinating and ambiguous character, showing blossoming talent that I look forward to seeing more of, while Cox steals his scenes as per usual. The film trips over itself a few times and like I said, overly convoluted, but it's one mesmerizing effort for the most part, albeit after a second or third viewing.

Mindscape has a good material in it. Reading other people's memory is good enough to make a nice film. But this movie definitely failed to do that. I feel like this movie seems like a chef made a bad dish out of fresh and delicious ingredients.First, it has sloppy story lines. From the first time, it was so obvious the way the story goes, and it went exactly the way I expected. The main characters are both handsome and attractive, but Mark Strong(John) was too dumb in the movie. I felt that there was some love line between John and Anna, but it was not interesting nor understandable.There were too many things going on in movie, from the John's wife, roses and to Mousey. But I don't think the movie gathered the things very well. Lots of pieces left a just part of the movie, so sometimes I wondered "is it really necessary in this movie?".If you are a big fan of these kinds of movie, you can watch it. I cannot really recommend this movie to other movie fans. I give 6 out of 10.