Cold Souls

Cold Souls

  • Director: Sophie Barthes
  • Countries of origin: United States, France
  • Language: English, Russian
  • Release date: May 5, 2010
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: 靈魂冷凍庫
  • William Paul Modibo Giamatti (Paul Giamatti) is an actor in a New York theater company. He is rehearsing Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya". But this play made him exhausted physically and mentally, and almost collapsed. By chance, William Paul Modibo found an organization called Soul Warehouse. Using advanced technology, William Paul Modibo successfully extracted 95% of his soul. After that, his acting skills did not make any progress, instead he often felt inexplicably empty and his personality changed. In order to return to normal life, William Paul Modibo "installed" the soul of a Russian woman under the advice of a doctor, but it made him more irritable. He strongly suggested to return his own soul, but found that the soul that had been properly preserved had disappeared...

    Details

    • Release date May 5, 2010
    • Filming locations St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Production companies Samuel Goldwyn Films, Two Lane Pictures, Winner Arts

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $905,209

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $63,302

    Gross worldwide

    $1,134,837

    Movie reviews

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    • By Green 2022-03-22 09:02:46

      The fate of the slaughter is so pitiful

      If you don't cultivate, don't watch this film, it's boring.

      Cultivation students can take a look at how other sects explain the seizing of the house.

      The Nascent Soul does exist, and it is possible to get out of the body. The film shows the possibility and feasibility of realizing it by secular means, but the protagonist's Nascent Soul is really ugly.

      The experience and lessons learned from the film are: the road to self-cultivation must not be half-false, you must...

    • By Ollie 2022-01-21 08:01:55

      Cold souls

      To talk about this movie, no matter how hard I try, I can’t get around Charlie Kaufman. It's like talking about A-RPG, "Darkness" cannot be avoided. Indeed, judging from the background of the story, the overhead soul extraction company, the desire to become others, and the endeavor to return to their own efforts are simply [Become John Malkovich] and [Nuan Nuan Containing Light] The complex, even Paul Giamatti’s dilemma of exhaustion is the same as Charlie Kaufman in [Adapted Screenplay] (not...

    • By Lola 2022-01-21 08:01:55

      What is a soul?

      Paul probably didn't know what a soul was at the beginning, let alone what his soul would be like. He just didn't dare to look into the depths of his soul, fearing that what he saw would be a desperate piece of nothingness. When the doctor drew out 95% of his soul, facing the crystal of its soul that turned into a small chickpea, Paul was initially disappointed because it is so small, so no deep meaning can be seen, but it is still I cherish it, after all, it comes from a part of myself....

    • By Royce 2022-01-21 08:01:55

      The look of the soul

      After watching this movie, I suddenly felt that only the soul in us belongs to us, and the body is just a derivative.

      You see that so many people have plastic surgery, makeup and fitness exercises, making them unable to recognize themselves or becoming better selves. In the future, he will continue to live his own life with this changed body.

      The body occupies a place in the world or someone's side, enjoying or suffering, only the inner soul is constantly gazing at all of...

    • By Braeden 2022-01-21 08:01:55

      Turn "However, This Is Life"-Wang Yi

      The biggest adventure in the world is the adventure of ideas.

      When I was a child, I heard cursing people, saying that you had a spinal cord, did you? This absurd, Kaufmanian and Europeanized American comedy asks, have you drawn your soul today?

      If the film is to question the soul, does it have to be concrete, or, in philosophical language, to be materialized? Although Thomas Aquinas followed Aristotle's ideas in the "Theological Encyclopedia", it is quite certain that the...

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    • By Tressie 2023-09-30 15:22:13

      Nice plot line, but very...

    • By Kole 2023-09-24 23:48:11

      "Who wants an American soul", madly love this...

    • By Eli 2023-09-04 00:14:45

      This should be the first time I've seen a sci-fi film about the body-mind relationship that takes an epiphenomenal stance (after 95% of the "soul" is taken away, it is still life as usual, but "feels lighter"; loads other people's "soul" only occasional hallucinations). Of course, like almost all body-mind science fiction films, this film is not immune to this problem: even in the context of science fiction, there is no way to "explain" and thus "understand" the body-mind relationship created...

    • By Hildegard 2023-08-29 07:55:31

      The feeling of watching the film reminds me of watching "Until the End of the World" 9 years...

    • By Virgie 2023-08-26 23:33:23

      Is it not necessary to go into details, it has no profound meaning, it just tells a...

    Movie plot

    The film can be regarded as a spiritual crisis closely related to existentialism, and at the same time, it is also a feedback to the well-known, increasingly powerful and perfect American userism or sales service. In this comedy story with a very surrealist style , the soul can also become freely extracted or traded like daily necessities...Hovering between cold humor and sentimental melancholy, reality and dreams, a perfect and tight...
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    Movie quotes

    • Giamatti - Paul: [Reading from yellow pages] Mini Storage, Pet Storage, Private Storage, Self Storage... Soul Storage.

    • Dr. Flintstein: Now, your soul will be be stored here, or, if you'd rather avoid sales tax, it can be shipped to our New Jersey warehouse.

      Giamatti - Paul: Un, no. God, no. I don't want my soul shipped to New Jersey. No.

      Dr. Flintstein: I understand.

    • Dr. Flintstein: Well, when you have a tumour, you get rid of it. A twisted soul is like a tumour. It's better to get rid of it.

      Giamatti - Paul: I don't think that my soul is twisted. Doctor.