Glinda brings Oscar's group to her domain in Oz to escape Evanora's army of Winkies and flying baboons.
Theodora bites it and changes into a green-skinned Wicked Witch. She offers the heartbroken Theodora a magic apple she says will remove her heartache. Evanora sees this with her crystal ball and manipulates Theodora against Oscar, falsely claiming he is trying to court all three witches. The three reach the forest and, upon retrieving the wand, discover the "Wicked Witch" is Glinda the Good Witch, who tells them Evanora is the real Wicked Witch.
Oscar and Finley are joined en route to the forest by China Girl, a young, living china doll whose village and family were destroyed by the Wicked Witch. They encounter the flying monkey Finley, who pledges a life debt to Oscar when he saves Finley from a lion.Īt the Emerald City, Oscar meets Theodora's sister Evanora, who tells him the Wicked Witch resides in the Dark Forest and can be killed by destroying her wand, the source of her powers. En route to the Emerald City, Theodora falls in love with Oscar. There he encounters the beautiful yet naive witch Theodora, who believes him to be a wizard prophesied to destroy the Wicked Witch who killed the King of Oz. Oscar escapes in a hot air balloon, but is sucked into a tornado that takes him to the Land of Oz. As a storm approaches, the circus strongman learns Oscar has flirted with his wife and goes after him. In 1905 Kansas, Oscar "Oz" Diggs works as a small-time magician in a traveling circus. Even the opening aerial shots present the city as a giant, complex organism, in which the individual voices flooding the call center are no more distinguishable from one another than the cars crawling like insects on the freeway.Īfter young Casey is abducted and put in the trunk of a car with nothing but. The operators don't simply use machines they are pressed to become machines themselves. One trainee complains that the hardest aspect of her job is the lack of closure: protocols designed to keep emotions at bay eventually strip the operators of that which makes them human. Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) works in a glorified cubicle called "The Hive," complete with a "Quiet Room" where 911 operators can reflect after a "bad" call if they inadvertently violate the directions to not become emotionally invested in their caller's situation.
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The dehumanizing effects of technology are at the core of the smarter, more difficult movie hovering around the edges of The Call. When faced with possible immanent extinction, one yearns for neither scores of contacts nor dozens of virtual "friends" but one true, human relationship.
"Don't forget me," Casey (Abigail Breslin) pleads with her mother-in a recorded message-in the film's most brutally honest emotional moment. Today, we conflate communication with being connected, with being plugged in. The Call (as much a horror film as a thriller, at heart) is not so much about generic movie fears, like random abductions and physical torture, but alienation and abandonment-heightened by technologies like the cell phone, which has monopolized communication. Horror films are about what a culture fears.
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