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Ever since the death of their father (Matthew Ninaber), Joshua (Jeremy
Ninaber) has been in charge of his twin sister Emma (Melissa Joy Boerger),
but she has some special supernatural abilities that not only make her a
threat to others but might also attract the attention of all sorts of
agencies, government and otherwise. At long last, Joshua decides to put
her in an asylum, and pays hush money to a orderly, Doug (Ethan Mitchell)
- but that doesn't go well when several patients try to commit suicide
spontaneously, which of course was Emma's doing. So Joshua accepts the
help of a renegade doctor, Malcolm (Aaron Tomlin), and hides Emma away in
hid dad's bomb shelter. And everything goes well for a while - sure,
Joshua has to make money in illegal and secret prize fights, but at least
that's something he gets a kick out of, and he even finds a girlfriend in
Amanda (Jehan Hashim). Thing is, Malcolm hasn't come to Joshua to cure
Emma's powers as he promised, but to set them free and cultivate them, so
he feeds her with (mostly false) information that's bound to infuriate
her, until she unleashes her anger in an outburst of all she has got
- which is pretty much, which makes this a plan bound to end in chaos ...
Without ever actively touching that genre, Transference
is pretty much the dark side of a superhero flick, a film that doesn't
celebrate but question superpowers, and that puts a philosophical rather
than spectacle-prone spin on things. But that's not to say Transference
is a brain-heavy meditation on the theme at all, there's still plenty of
action, the movie's strong on atmosphere, and it's got a nice mystery feel
to it that keeps one guessing throughout. And of course interesting and
relatable characters embodied by a very able cast don't hurt one bit
either to turn this into very enjoyable genre entertainment.
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