I can almost recommend "Subject Two" as an introspective take on medical ethics and the doctor-patient relationship, set
against the background of a modern-day Frankenstein story. It's almost a good movie in that context. In fact, though it moves perhaps too slowly and quietly, the film, shot on digital video and boasting a very bright, sharp color palette, has a certain magnetism to it. With only two central characters and a remote setting atop a snowy mountain in Colorado, it reads like a small chamber piece -- except that in this case, one of the characters is constantly killing and resurrecting the other. Adam Schmidt (Christian Oliver) is a medical student who is invited by a mysterious doctor to participate in a study. The doctor, Franklin Vick (Dean Stapleton), knows that Adam is frustrated by the medical world's views on ethics -- he'd like a little more leeway -- and that this makes him a perfect candidate for his, Dr. Vick's, experiments, which certainly push the limits of ethical behavior.
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