Phenomenon(페노메논, 1996년)

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존 터틀터웁 감독, 존 트라볼타 주연의 1996년작 영화.

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Plot – George Malley is a mechanical automaker who lives in Harmon, a quiet California town. There everyone knows each other and George celebrates his thirty-seventh birthday at the bar with all his friends, but suddently something mysterious throws him to the gound. After that, George finds himself with extraordinary abilities and he makes profit of it: he assembles solar panels on the roof of his house, he experiments new methods of cultivation, he reads avidly many books and learns quickly the secrets of human sciences. George realizes he has also physical unsuspected qualities as he can attract objects and give off energy beams. Moreover he knows when earthquakes are about to happen. One day George damages the computer network and a FBI agent arrives and questions him but George embarrasses the psychologist who was trying to eval‎uate his intelligence quotient. When his friends begin to misunderstand him, he falls into depression and faints. They announce him he has a brain tumor and he has little time to live. One year later, the whole city celebrates George's birthday to remember him.

All actors – John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Kiley, David Gallagher,




What is the most famous line from movie the phenomenon?

“- Lace Pennamin: I tried so hard not to love you.
- George Malley: How'd you make out?
- Lace Pennamin: Terrible.
- George Malley: Hey, would you, uh, love me the rest of my life?
- Lace Pennamin: No. I'm gonna love you for the rest of mine.”




“- Doc Brunder: George, how did you manage to get your pressure to come down?
- George Malley: Oh... I found my pace. Simple thing really. Hard to explain.”



“Love is buried under fear, and partnership, is right there under competition, and there's compassion underneath the greed. Nate, you gotta take your eraser and do the work. It's hard work and nobody can do it for you. There's no drug. That's the sum of it.”



“- Lace Pennamin: So, let me ask you something, George. When a man comes over with a basket full of tomatoes, what is he expecting? Dinner?
- George Malley: Nah, no, no. Just hoping.”


Phenomenon

John Travolta's should've-been-nominated-for-an-Oscar performance is the best reason to see this largely moving work, which is a little reminiscent of the novel Flowers for Algernon (basis for the film Charly). Travolta plays a mechanic who sees a bright light in the sky one night and wakes up the next morning a genius, hungry for knowledge and so smart he figures out national defense secrets in his own living room (and gets in hot water for it). The more interesting drama, however, is not with the government but with the character's longtime neighbors and friends, who come to reject him for being different. Robert Duvall gives a stirring performance as a doctor who has known the hero all his life, and Kyra Sedgwick is very good as an ambivalent love interest. If you missed this one in the theaters, then you haven't seen one of Travolta's best performances since his comeback. The DVD release presents a widescreen image, optional French soundtrack, optional Spanish subtitles, and theatrical trailer. --Tom Keogh