As Phone Booth, the sweaty Colin Farrell thriller, turns 20, agracru looks back at how the film's obsolete technology works to its advantage:
Stumbling upon a public phone in 2023 is like finding a fossil in a sandbox: You’re looking at a relic of a bygone era, tucked away in its ecosystem’s stratum. It doesn’t serve a purpose. It’s there to complement the terroir. Surprisingly, the phone booth’s status as yesterday’s bric-a-brac doesn’t affect, Joel Schumacher’s 2003 psych-thriller, set in and around a New York City call box.
Stuart , a PR scumbag greased up with self-absorption, makes a pit stop at a Times Square phone booth; he’s calling his mistress, Pam , while his wife, Kelly , is none the wiser. He hangs up. The phone calls back. It’s a man, credited as the Caller , who instructs Stuart not to leave the booth under penalty of death.
The Caller’s absolutism dovetails somewhat with the twitchy anxieties that bubble under the surface of so many 2000s-era movies, but whatboils down to, in 2003 as in 2023, is its location. The phone booth is a prison, and a mousetrap. Once Stuart picks up that phone, he trips the spring and the jaws snap shut around him; the “public” part of “public pay phone” becomes a thumbscrew on Stuart’s swaggering composure.
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