The Life Before Her Eyes
The Life Before Her Eyes is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay was adapted by Emil Stern from the Laura Kasischke novel of the same name. The film stars Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. It was released on April 18, 2008, and revolves around a survivors guilt from a Columbinelike event that occurredyears previously, which causes her presentday idyllic life to fall apart.
The film mostly focuses on Dianas adulthood Uma Thurman. She leads an apparently normal life as an art history university professor. She has a daughter, Emma Gabrielle Brennan, and shes married to the professor who once gave a speech in her school about the power of visualization, how one can shape ones own future in this way. We learn, however, that she feels guilty about something that doesnt let her sleep.One day she gets a call from Emmas school. The nuns who run the school complains about her behavior. Later, at an ice cream parlor, Diana asks Emma not to hide any more as she is always doing. You hate me, Emma replies to her mothers reproaches. They leave the parlor abruptly and as theyre about to get into the car, Diana sees her husband, the professor, with another woman. She hesitates about confronting him and instead remains in the middle of the street where she is hit by a pickup truck. On her way to the hospital she imagines that blood is escaping from her body. However in fact she hasnt been hurt by the accident. What is happening is that she is remembering the complications she had following an abortion in her high school days. ........
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