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Since a friend of hers has been murdered, Andrea's (Anita Nicole Brown)
life has been turned topsy turvey: Not only is she questioned by the
police about the murder and made a suspect in the case, she also suffers
from weird black-outs, something her psychiatrist Dr Shephard (Shavar D.
Clark) attributes to her diabetes. But he and his wife (Shannon Lee) seem
to have other plans with her. What's worse, there are also several hitmen
and -women after her, and Andrea surprises herself with the skills she has
to fight them off - but one hitwoman (Meiling Jin) also doubles as her
nurse giving her insulin-shots. Andrea tries to figure out what's going on
exactly, but the only connection she can make between everything happening
to her is a frequently repeated line, "The Wolf is waiting" -
which means nothing to her. But then someone starts leaving little notes
in her apartment that help her make sense of everything ... but the truth
she's trying to find out might be more horrific than anything she has ever
imagined. Crisis Function is a delirious piece of genre
cinema, one that makes little attempts to follow genre rules and instead
tells a tale of lost control and amnesia in a fittingly associative and
non-linear labyrinthine way, complimented by nervous camerawork and the
occasional outbreak of violence. And add to that a srong cast, and you've
got yourself a pretty good movie. Allegedly, this movie was shot in
downtime from shooting The Perfect Letter using some of the same
locations and sets - but the a tad rushed look and hurried feel does the
film good, as it plays right into its subject matter. Very unusual, and
pretty great, actually.
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