There are several sources that call this Flatliners film as Horror-Psychological. However, I am more inclined to Horror-Scientific. Psychological side is shown in this film. However, there is an impression of this film that is very prominent, which is 'explain how it can happen' with the frame of the world of medicine. And that was especially true for me who had zero knowledge of the defribillator, adrenaline, syndrome xxx, bla-bla-bla, which is often thrown by the player as if accompanied by a slap: 'Here, eat science!'
I do not want to compare this movie with its old movie in the 90s. It's a remake movie that, according to reviews, there is a disappointment because it is no better than the old version. This is the risk of a franchise movie because some viewers have been holding on to certain expectations.
Flatline itself is a medical term that refers to the flat line that appears on ECG monitors, a state where there is no activity in the heart and the human brain aka death.
Flatlining in the film is defined as an experience shortly after death. While the Flatliners are the culprits. But for me it is not that simple. If I can make my own definition, these Flatliners are not just actors (suffix -er on flatline + er), but more than that. The flatliners in my ears sound like a group of people making unusual moves, so I prefer to interpret them as 'dormant controllers'. Flatliners: suspended animation.
Flatliners movie (2017) tells the story of a temporary death experiment conducted by 5 students (apprentices) in a hospital. This experiment was initiated by Courtney's (Ellen Page) curiosity about the instantaneous brain activity of a recently deceased person. Since the death experiment is illegal, Courtney invites his friends to do so in a secret place.
Courtney became the first Flatliners. He forced his friends to 'kill' him, record his brain activity during his death, then 'raise' himself in a certain minute with a very risky medical procedure.
The theory used in these flatline conditions is that when the heart stops working, the heart has a maximum limit of up to 4 minutes to not receive oxygen. If it is not over the limit, the heart is only temporarily dead and it is likely to be forced to beat again so that the flatliners ask to be revived after a minute, 2 minutes, or even 3 minutes, no more.
Upon returning from the suspended animation he requested, Courtney became a different person. It is like being reborn with better ability than before. He becomes smarter than his friends so it makes Jamie (James Norton), Marlo (Nina Dobrev), and Sophia (Kiersey Clemons) want to do the same: flatlining. While Ray (Diego Luna) did not participate in trying because from the beginning he rejected the existence of such experiments initiated by Courtney. However, as a friend, he keeps helping them because he is actually the most competent in the medical actions done in the flatline experiment.
At first it was all fun: playing with death. But over time, strange things happened to them flatliners.
Like a debt of death, they feel like being chased by a ghost who invites them to die because they have dared to play with the world of the dead.
The conflict pursued by this death is wrapped up by the rampant repentance of each of the greatest figures of sin in the past, over the harm they have done and not yet accounted for.
The value raised in this movie seems to be the point, about the confession of sin in the past. That every human must have faults and they must be responsible for it.
I am interested to watch this movie because it is written Nina Dobrev name on the poster. I do not know enough about this person, but as I know, he found me the first time in the tv drama series, The Vampire Diaries, my spectacle in an unfinished era of unfashionable old times. In the series, which is quite attention to me, how a Nina Dobrev play 2 different characters and do a kiss scene with 5 male actors in the drama series. OMG. Certainly not in one episode of the scene.
Then in this Flatliners he was indecent scenes with Diego Luna. Hmft. Who's this girl? That would be really sincere guy. She's professional, bro. Of course, 6 different men, maybe more ..
For the horror movie size, for me, Flatliners are not scary enough. Plusnya value, fortunately the players are fresh, sexy, and pleasing to the eye. Movies with a good idea but executed with a plot of the story is very simple, predictable, and it seems boring indeed. Light enough to watch. Not enough to leave an impression.