The Eye !

Summary Of The Movie..

The eye tells the story of Sydney Wells ((Jessica Alba)) and how she loses her sight in her early childhood. Throughout her life, Sydney accomplishes many things despite the fact that she is blind. She manages to live life by relying on her other sences such as smell, touch, taste, hearing and scent. But now after waiting her whole life, she undergoes a cornea transplant to completely restore her sight.

After some difficult adjusting, Sydney is able to make out exactly what she is seeing which she soon realises is not normal. She begins to see haunting images, horrifying disasters and spirits being escorted away after thier death.
Sydney, being blind her pretty much her whole life, is not sure if this is what she is meant to be seeing. She starts feeling confused, scared, worried, curious, unsure and frightened because she is sure that this is not what the world really looks like and she cannot trust her eyes, as they are not truely hers. Sydney confides in Dr Paul Faukner, the specialist who is helping her use her eyes properly. He reassures her that it is all in her mind because her brain is not used to having all five senses.

Sydney tries to block out the disturbing imagas and visions but then she begins to dream things that she has never dreamt of nor seen before. Later she is shown a photgraph of herself which she does not recongnise because it is not what she sees when she looks in the mirror.
Determined to find out what is going on with her and that she is not crazy, Sydney researches organ donars. She discovers that some people who have had organ transplants in the past have some sort of connection with the donar, and is sure that that was what was happeing to her.

After finding out about her cornea donar, Sydney and Dr Paul Faulkner set out to Mexico, where her donar once lived.

Once in Mexico, they manage to find Anna's (the donar) mother who tells them about a rapid fire a few years ago that killed the lives of many. She also spoke to them of Anna's gift. Or curse. Anna could sence when people were about to die and seconds before the fire struck, Anna tried to warn everyone. Nobody believed her but moments later they were all killed after and explosion caused a fire. Anna survived but the people of the town blamed her and never forgave her which resulted in her comitting suicide.

Sydney had been given her eyes and Anna was who she saw in the mirror. What she still didn't know, was what the visions she kept having meant.

She soon found out when there was a road block on the wasy back from Mexico. Sydney could sence hundreds of people's deaths and knew that this is what Anna wanted her to do. Save them all. She knew now that by saving all of these people, Anna would finally be able to rest in peace. Sydney needed to do what Anna failed to.

A large gasoline truck was among the traffic jammed along the highway and as soon as Sydney saw it she knew she had to get everyone out of thier cars. By using quick a quick excuse of "There is a bomb on the bus !" she manages to get everyone out of danger seconds before police chase cars collide with the gasoline truck. A massive fire ignites and smashes car windows everywhere. Shattered glass falls directly into Sydneys eyes...

She is rushed to hospital and loses her sight once again.

Speach Sydney gives in last scene which I think is pretty powerful and sums up the story that was told..

"Some say seeing is believing. Now I know what they mean.
Anna knew when death was coming but she was powerless to prevent it.
Anna and I shared both a blessing and a curse.
I know now that I don't need eyes to see what truely matters. The gift of Anna's sight made me see what I was afraid to, to use that vision to not only save myself and others, but to give Anna the peace she never found in life..."