Mindscape (film)

Mindscape also known as Anna is a 2013 internationally coproduced psychological thriller film, and the directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Jorge Dorado. The film stars Taissa Farmiga, Mark Strong, and Brian Cox. The screenplay was written by Guy Holmes and follows John, a detective with the ability to enter peoples memories he takes on the case of a brilliant but troubled and dangerous 16yearold girl, Anna, to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of psychological trauma.

John Washington Mark Strong is a recently widowed man who can enter peoples memories. In the past, John used this ability to help solve criminal cases but, after a stroke during a session that goes wrong, he is left incapacitated for two years and financially ruined he is a shell of his former self. He still owns the beach house where his wife died but refuses to sell it. Desperate for money, John asks his old superior, Sebastian Brian Cox, for a new job. The case he receives is that of a brilliant but troubled 16yearold girl, Anna Greene Taissa Farmiga, who is on a hunger strike. Her stepfather Richard Dillane wants her sent to a mental institution which Anna is adamantly against. John is there to determine whether she is a sociopath, based on something that occurred at her boarding school, or if she is the victim of psychological trauma.John and Anna begin their therapy sessions, focusing on Annas time at a prestigious girls school and several incidents that happened there. John finds himself drawn to Anna but is also wary of her. His suspicions also grow towards her mother Saskia Reeves and stepfather, who he believes have hired a mysterious man to shadow him, as well as towards Sebastian who John learns has withheld a file on Anna from him. Annas behavior towards John becomes more flirtatious and she draws a portrait of him with the caption, You are my only safe place. ........

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