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Meg Altman (Foster), recently divorced from the owner of a pharmaceutical giant, and her 12-year-old daughter Sarah (Stewart), who suffers from diabetes, are staying in a four-story townhouse that was previously owned by a disabled, reclusive millionaire. It has a panic room, an isolated room protected by a four-inch-thick steel door and an impressive security system, and features a separate phone line. Read more...


While watching Panic Room last night, I've been hoping that I'd be able to have a good dose of paranoia and panic attack. I don't easily get anxious like being in panic. It's like I always have Jasper Whitlock Hale around so I was looking for a change.

I was trying to be normal.

This movie had a wonderful plot. It may not be a wonderful wonderful, but it was good enough. I thought the intruders would come after a day when the mother and daughter moved in, but the bad guys already came during their first night in the big house. It was really big. I don't want to live in such place.

Meg Altman and Sarah Altman showed me two characters I admire in people. Albeit the conundrum they were in, they were still able to stay calm and think. Of course, anxiety is the beginning of finding answer to one's problem. Anxiety and panic do have positive outcomes too. They make people focused, for the sake of self-preservation. Of course, in Meg's case it was more of keeping her daughter Sarah safe.

Sarah, the eleven year old daughter, was amazing. For an eleven year old to think, speak and act that way I could only think of Kristen Stewart. She was so Kristen. Oh well, Sarah Altman and Kristen Stewart made a perfect union. I remember Sarah telling her mother, "Mom, I was trying not to tell you. I'm hungry and dizzy." When she said she was dizzy, I became quite anxious. When hunger and dizziness come together they spell a-l-a-r-m.

Most of my paranoia were the scenes of Meg and the intruders almost facing each other. Vis-a-vis. I still remember how I reacted. Fight or flight.

I am including Panic Room in my favourite movies. Because I do like it. And I was just thinking of watching more Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart movies. This movie reminded me of suspense/thriller as my favourite movie genre.



Music:
Vivaldi - La Primavera