Adoration - A movie by director Atom Egoyan

ADORATION is celebrated director Atom Egoyans twelfth feature film. It is woven with the
common threads that appear in much of his work: the differences between appearance and
reality; and the subjective nature of truth; prismatic, fragmented structures; multiple time frames
and points of view; rich and complex characters; and the dynamics of family.
Egoyan has long been interested in the concept of communication and the role of technology in
our lives. In ADORATION, Egoyan explores intimacy and the nature of our relationship to media
and technology, and its effect on the construction of personal identity.
One of the original inspirations for the film came from a 1986 news story Egoyan had read about
a Jordanian man who sent his pregnant Irish girlfriend on an El Al flight with a bomb in her
handbag, of which she had no knowledge until security found it.
The story always struck me because it was one of the first examples of how extreme
a terrorist act could be and how one could turn someone close into an abstraction—
not only his fiancée but also an unborn child. I came across the story again in 2006
and began to wonder about the child and the legacy of being raised knowing what
your father had done.
The ensemble piece follows Simon, a high school student who uses the Internet to misrepresent
himself as a figure from recent history (the unborn child), and draws a group of schoolmates and
survivors into a community of people mourning a tragedy that never happened. The story shifts
between a foiled terrorist plot and its unexpected repercussions on the lives of three
contemporary characters living in Toronto.
In many ways, Adoration is about the need to find objects and places which give a
sense of meaning, as opposed to the instant meaning accorded to the sea of
responses that Simon is dealing with over the Internet. This actual event of the
terrorist plot began to mesh with the story of a young man maturing in an age of
invented screen names and the creation of alternate identities through gaming
avatars.
Principal photography on the $6-million film began in Toronto in September 2007. Twenty years
earlier, Egoyan was shooting Speaking Parts, a film that also dealt with intimacy and ways
people could connect—at that time through satellite technology and satellite links.

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[ballerinagirl1997]

I'm in love with devon bostick

[itscuppycakeBITCH]

@ImpressiveAura its not real, its something Egoyan created for the movie. Devon Bostick said in an interview.

[amatrineprincess77]

I love all of Atom Egoyan's work. It seems no matter what he touches it turns to gold. In college, I used several of his peices in several different classes including Critical Reasoning. It's like he has his finger on the very pulse of human nature...each story he tells has some character people can identify with in some way...even the truley tragic ones, and that is what I beleive sets him apart from so many other film makers.

[ImpressiveAura]

Love'd this movie, but what is the video webcam program he uses during the movie?