Dante 01
Dante 01
R | 02 January 2008 (USA)
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Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Wordiezett

So much average

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BelSports

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Kien Navarro

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Vania Alban-Zapata

I used to be a fan of Caro, being french and grown up in the 90's, and being a visual effects artist. I can't believe how bad this film come back turned out to be! I watched it all as respect for the cast, which is good, but to no avail... Poor story line, vague plot, even vaguer religious connotations. The references to Solaris really made me angry, being a fan of that film (the original Russian version, Tarkosky's). What nerve using such a mater piece with such superficiality! It does look like a production butchered film... but to be honest I found the production design bad, that mix of retro and space technology simply doesn't work here. And the visual effects and artistic direction very poor and repetitive. OK it seems like money was scarce... but also seems like no real effort was made. What a shame...Still, waiting for more Caro, this had to be an accident!

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jannemanninen28

This is most interesting movie. Since the acting is so fine I didn't have to pay attention to it and the visual aspect of the film is goddamn gorgeous, I'll move to the focus point of the film which is clearly missed for many individuals.This is a story which has been told times and times again. It's stated right in the start of the movie and it refers to the journey within. That means it is metaphoric representation of one's struggle inside his psyche, against his own sources of suffering and discomfort. But, for a change, this ain't done in the style of the Joseph Campbell's monomyth. It is done in the old good sense of psychoanalytic representation. It is supremely obvious if the viewer has done the process - not the analysis, necessarily, but struggled with the forces within. Let me explain this a bit.The prisoners, which are named among clearly simplified figures which clarify their status in the set of unconscious (ie. repressed) forces - or 'characters'. These are the needs and wants people generally don't want to admit in them, as to include them to your own ego-view of yourself: for example, the Buddha who wants to thinks he is helping people when hurting them for his own pleasure. Or the little Caesar, who is totally absorbed in having control over others and gets his pleasure in subjugating them. (i have only 1.000 words so cutting the list here, you can spot the rest yourself) Now the protagonist isn't the analyst - the healer as someone other person - but he is the manifestation of that will of one's that is set on the move when one is going after his "unconscious". It is the required agent that is ready to take the heat without being burned - and even when the forces overpower him, he (the will to go for it to the end) is able to restore himself. Ie. after defeat one cannot surrender but keep on going. It represents also the aspect of psychic/spiritual 'enlightenment' where one has to be willing to die, in a sense, to be able to reborn as something other than were before.The nanobots, which seem to be about to kill the person who is infected, represent the climax of the process: one is in horrible pains before he is finally able to let go of the alien thing - alien force - inside him that is tainting his soul. Alien in the sense of foreign for oneself, not E.T. So, our hero is able to see through the surface, through the facade of these suffering prisoners, straight 'into their hearts' and spot the dark thing that haunts them. And take it into himself, eat it up. That is: liberate the forces the character represents so that they are no longer fixated but are part and able to serve the whole - not just pursuing their own 'pleasure in pain' without any concern about what it means to other( interest)s. The prison is the unconscious, prisoners are habitats of it, and the doctors who are 'in control' are the ego. And sleeping gas is their only tool..One who listens is the one who understands what is going on, ie. Persephone. She who lives part of her time in the underworld. "The door should have opened and left open years ago", she says. The gap - the blockade, the barricade - between ego and the unconscious. The new nurse and Persephone can represent both the biological and psychoanalytical perspectives, but also one's own stance towards problems: to medicate it away or to figure it out.Attila is the side of us which is willing to give up anything and everything but the suffering which is so dear to us. This is the pilot of the "In Therapy" who in the end kills himself rather than confront himself and what he is and what he has done.The whole complex is in orbit of burning magma, that is macrocosmic metaphor for being stuck and bound to something which you can't go near but which you can't abandon, either. That is, the cause of our suffering. Everyone has his/her own, and to be set free is to subjectify it. Become it, and thus absorb it's power over oneself.

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dbborroughs

A non-verbal prisoner, Saint Georges is brought to a psychological research station called Dante 01 because it is in orbit around a planet called Dante. The prisoner was found in all alone in a deep space transport. It is hoped that the facility and its clearance for new treatments will unlock Saint Georges' secrets.This is a science fiction film that mixes science horror and religion into a visually stunning treat. In all honesty I'm not sure what the film means, or is suppose to mean but I think the film somehow works on some level. I think the films success is mostly as a grand mystery that carries the viewer along to the end because it spins out enough questions we want to know the answers to. Is it successful, not entirely. Certainly the religious allegory (one need only look at the names to see it St Georges, Moloch, Perséphone, Buddha, Charon) is painfully obvious and over worked which makes an ending that is both clear and unclear. The film also seems to be keeping a little bit too much to itself and I wasn't always certain what was what. But at the same time I really like this movie. It wasn't completely the same old thing, or perhaps even if it was the film looked stunning enough that I really didn't mind.Personally I think the film is worth trying. It may not float your boat but at the same time I think there will be enough inside it to make you feel you didn't waste the money for a rental or your time.

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antileft

What we all have feared ,hoping that it will never materialize, unfortunately occurred,namely, a French Sci-Fi film,and , yes , it is in the misty nebulae of deeper than the deepest philosophical meanings , interpretations and Lacan-like conclusions ! There is a top security space vessel with the skeleton crew ,but there are no wardens, only a trio of psychiatrists and a bunch of supposedly utterly murderously fixated criminals,whose crime history we never get to learn about,but they are all blessed with religiously –intelectually – deadly seriously sounding names , namely : Persefone , Lazare ,Moloch, Buddha ! to name but a few and this merry-go round starts spinning at incredible speed with the arrival of a prisoner-patient ,who is emitting a sort of religious aura-energy ,and is immediately christened by one of the prisoners as Saint Chrostopher ,who has finally arrived to save them … From something …And then we are left to witness and sigh with bottomless wonder and awe at the endless walks through corridors ,suspiciously resembling the interiors in the Cube series ,and a trio of aforementioned controllers ,who are supposedly controlling something…From someone … And then the course of the ship is changed ,and … the volcano-looking planet ,around which the station rotates,is transformed through the ' deus-et-machina ' intervention by the aforementioned Saint-dude into an Earth-looking planet no less ! And ,yes, if you haven't been annoyed / irritated / depressed enough by this , there is another mind-wrecking surprise in store , namely a narrator , Persefone in person – as a comic relief ? – who is trying to add a necessary element of terrifying explanations ,as unfortunately there is no place for free-wheeling sex (the sexes look the same here ,mind you !) .This movie rejects everything the American , well, the only quality science-fiction genre has produced so far , instead opting for the worst of the worst , namely Russian Tarkovsky-like products ( e.g. Stalker , Solaris ) ,while it also steals from Kubrick's Odyssey series. You have been properly warned , and if you have to , watch without , God forbid , a female companion , specially if you wish to impress upon her ! Better show her a Shaq comedy ! With his size shoes !

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