Red Lights (2012 film)

Red Lights is a 2012 SpanishAmerican thriller film written and directed by Rodrigo Corts and starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Joely Richardson and Leonardo Sbaraglia. The plot focuses on a physicist Murphy and a university psychology professor Weaver, both of whom specialize in debunking supernatural phenomena, and their attempt at discrediting a renowned psychic De Niro whose greatest critic mysteriously died thirty years prior.

The film opens with two primary characters a university academic who also engages in paranormal investigation work, Margaret Matheson Sigourney Weaver and her assistant in both areas, Tom Buckley Cillian Murphy, who is also a talented physics academic. The audience is provided with an insight into the world of the opening sections primary characters while concurrently observing the public reemergence of a psychic, Simon Silver Robert De Niro.The ending of the films first half is signified by the sudden death of Matheson from a chronic vascular condition at the same time that one of Silvers reintroductory performances takes place an incident that is particularly significant due to the death of a former nemesis of Silver, a skeptic who investigated the psychics work, under similar circumstances. Matheson also had a previous encounter with Silver. She recounted a public meeting when Silver had, for an instant, gotten the best of her by bringing up the subject of her sons spirit her son was in a vegetative coma and on life support. Matheson agrees only to appear on a televised panel in anticipation of Silvers return. Prior to her death, Matheson refuses to cooperate with Buckleys insistent call to undertake another investigation of Silver, warning Buckley against such an undertaking due to her previous experience with the psychic. ........

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