Jim dies Wednesday. Linda gradually realizes that Jim was planning to have an affair with Claire during his business trip, and she contemplates letting him die. She spots it in the wastebasket. She might stay awake most of the night, collapsing before dawn. She goes to bed with him that night. We then are faced with the question of when and how Linda discovers this. She records Tuesday as the current day, Saturday as the funeral day, and Wednesday as Jim's death. Again we do not know what happens to this Linda after the accident. This film is also the first to be co-distributed by TriStar Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dr. Roth is the only psychiatrist in the phone book, so she tears out the page and heads for his office, probably because she hopes that as a walk-in she might be able to get time immediately instead of an appointment in three months. Sepia colors and their 1965 Ford Mustang set the tone and the time... (a flash of white light breaks the reverie). She would probably expect to hear something from him by Thursday night--if there is not a message on the answering machine saying he made it safely she'll probably call his cell phone or possibly his hotel room sometime that evening. This sort of predestination paradox is common in fixed time stories, but under replacement theory the problem of the uncaused cause is resolved by finding an original alternate cause. There is a U. S. Highway 57. The site's general consensus is that "Overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse Premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as Memento, The Sixth Sense, and Groundhog Day. She picks up her children and tells them, her mother comes, and Linda makes it through the day. Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2020, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. She manages to escape the scene and return home, and leaps into the future that night. Linda next awakens in her bed and finds Jim in the shower.
It may be that at this point her commitment drops out of the story. If we work backwards from the accident, we know that there are no stickers on the glass because Linda does not put them there until Thursday. Linda thinks Thursday has been a nightmare, but the next morning when she wakes, it's Saturday after his death. That Tuesday is uneventful; again, there is no visit to Dr. Roth and corresponding glass door accident. We cannot guess why this is the case; we have no explanation for the time travel at all, so guessing why it works as it does is just guessing. Middle-class couple Linda and Jim Hanson exist in a rut with their two daughters in their comfortable suburban home. Linda visits Jim at his office and meets the stranger from the funeral, who introduces herself as Claire Francis. The film's plot depicts a homemaker named Linda who experiences the days surrounding her husband's death in a non-chronological order, and how she attempts to save him from his impending doom. We are told that the house has one and a half bathrooms, and that's the one with the shower (and presumably tub) so that's the one the girls use for bathing and probably brushing teeth and other getting ready for bed or school activities. Premonition Ratings & Reviews Explanation. Linda gradually realizes that Jim was planning to have an affair with Claire during his business trip, and she contemplates letting him die. She does so again when they leap to Wednesday. A premonition is when the mind sees an event, or series of events, before they occur. And can she save Jim? He agrees, but it is evident that he does not do this. Roth does not recognize her. Linda pursues him. This, too, will feed into Saturday, but again that does not yet happen, because on Friday night, after having a glass of wine, she leaps back to create the final anomaly, possessing herself on Sunday. There is also a serious problem of memory. See score details. The first trip we see is by our reckoning the second one she makes; she had to make that original trip from Saturday back to Sunday to create the necessary history of the Thursday on which the flim begins. Rack up 500 points and you'll score a $5 reward for more movies. So Linda goes to bed in her own bed on Saturday night. Although there are some questionable quirks in the film, and the nature of the time travel is never explained, it appears that from a temporal perspective the story is possible. When he did, she prevented the affair but caused the accident. This will have to be considered; we'll look at it next as we reconstruct an original history. Cookie policy. If on Saturday she has determined that her husband has had an affair, by the next morning she may have decided that she is going to fight to keep her husband. So perhaps she starts to become suspicious on Thursday.
She sees Dr. Roth, meets Claire Francis for what is for Claire the first time, spills pills in the sink, and is unable to prevent Bridgette from crashing through the glass door. He places a call home, his answering machine message interrupted by the call from Linda, who possessed by the self that came from Sunday is pursuing him. He had the affair. The timing will be the same. The site's general consensus is that "Overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse Premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as Memento, The Sixth Sense, and Groundhog Day.
Roth's office is closed, but before the night is over Mrs. King arranges for Roth to have Linda committed to a secure psychiatric facility, where she is drugged and falls asleep strapped to a bed. Someone wound time backwards for her, taking her identity back to a moment before any of this happened, and then let time move forward, rewriting who she was into who she becomes. If she is that Linda, how did she get into this timeline?
There would have been no reason to visit a psychiatrist on that occasion.