JUST finished watching Buried, and I fucking loved it. The movie is directed by Rodrigo Cortes and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Reynolds only. So the movie is about this American truck driver who works in Iraq, that gets attacked by a group of Iraqis while making a delivery in his truck, and ends up waking up in a coffin underground, left with a phone, pencil, lighter, flashlight, alcohol, and glow sticks.
The entire movie takes place in this coffin, that's it. and when I first read about this movie early last year, I was extremely curious as to how they could pull that off. After viewing id say they pulled it off excellently. I never once lost interest in what was going on. The lighting in the movie came from the cell phone, lighter, flashlight and glow sticks, which really gave that claustrophobic feeling of being trapped in this coffin. The movie made me feel anxious and curious as to what was going to happen next. I'm not a huge fan of Ryan Reynolds, and I was puzzled as to why they would cast him out of all the actors out there. but nonetheless I was very impressed with Reynolds in this movie. He made me as a viewer get drawn into his character and really feel the way he was feeling. Overall excellent movie, deff one of my favorites of 2010, and I highly recommend it.
In the movie Ryan Reynolds character, Paul, calls many different people, including his wife who doesn't pick up, the police, fbi, and this hostage control guy. Paul, being an average guy, not a soldier, is constantly thinking that the people on the other line of the phone are doing absolutely nothing to help him. It would be easy to assume this because Paul has no idea if what they are saying is true or not. While talking to the hostage control guy, named Dan, Paul asks if they have actually saved anybody. Dan is stuck in a pickle and says he has rescued a man named Mark White. This gave Paul hope that they will eventually rescue him and everything will be ok, because they did so with Mark White. The fact that they used an average guy as the character, allows the viewer to really relate to him, and gives the fear that this situation could happen to anybody!
Now at the end of the movie when the coffin is quickly filling up with sand, Dan calls and states that they found him and will be there in 3 minutes, well this hypes Paul up and he quickly talks to his wife and assures her that everything is going to be okay. then right when he is convinced he is getting saved, Dan calls and says oh my god its Mark White, im sorry Paul (or something like that). so that left me thing "Wait, Mark White?, didnt they save him?"... so this has had me thinking for a good hour after watching the movie, and have come up with the conclusion that Dan lied to Paul about Mark White to give comfort to Paul, when in reality Mark White was still lost. Dan tells Paul at the end of the movie, that someone in the area knew of an American who was buried alive, and told them where he was. This lead Dan away from Paul and to Mark, because the person was referring to Mark, not Paul. This is because Paul was JUST buried and nobody knew about him, where Mark was buried for three weeks. *cracks fingers, leans back-hands behind head*
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