(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="205" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/aimyinacage-poster.jpg" width="200" height="321"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Aimy (Allisyn Ashley Arm) is a trouble child ... oh, not really actually, she's just creative, thrives to be a painter, and isn't really one to follow "the rules" - which is already enough to drive Aimy's grandmother (Terry Moore) to despair, and grandma is resourceful enough to turn the whole household against Aimy, including Aimy's almost always absent dad (Theodore Bouloukos) and Aimy's live-in boyfriend Steve (Michael William Hunter) against her and convinces everybody that Aimy's in desparate need of (illegal) brain surgery. The only one who's on Aimy's side is grandma's young "fiancé", but his motives might not be exactly of an altruistic nature ...<p>Eventually, Aimy gets brain surgery, too, but the effects of the controversial method used wear off all to quickly, and soon enough, Aimy's back to her old self, and seeing what has been done to her starts to rebel more consciously - rebellion that eventually causes her grandma's heart attack and death ... or at least, the others blame it on Aimy. Then a new and uncontrollable form of plague strikes and the whole town is put under curfew ... and with grandma gone, the others in the household want to have to do less and less with Aimy, so they tie her up in her room and pretty much leave her to rot - especially her boyfriend, who has long (inofficially) ditched her and gotten friendly with houseguest Kelly (Sara Murphy), even impregnated her. But the situation gets worse and worse, especially when Aimy's family start dying but those who remain alive find themselves locked in with Aimy by (martial) law ...<p> <p><b>Aimy in a Cage</b> is basically a film unlike anything you've ever seen before (even if you might at times be reminded of David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Ken Russell, Tim Burton and the like): Its story is just completely far-out, borderline insane in the best possible of ways, and it's told in a not strictly linear, often associative sort of way. And special mention just has to go to the costumes and set design that are not just here to add splashes of colour to the proceedings but help to set up the atmosphere, to move the story along, and at times even get in the minds of the characters. And add to that a beautiful directorial effort that finds subtlety in all the craziness without seeming in the least to be held back, and a first rate cast, and you've got yourself something that ... you've just never seen - but if you approach it with an open mind, you will in all probability love it, too! <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>