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''Escape from Tomorrow'' is a 2013 American black-and-white independent fantasy horror film, the debut of writer and director Randy Moore. It follows an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. It has received two Saturn Awards. The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened.〔http://www.fearnet.com/blogs/surviving-cinema/v-victory〕 It drew attention because Moore had shot most of it on location at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland without permission from The Walt Disney Company, owner and operator of both parks. Due to Disney's reputation of being protective of its intellectual property, the cast and crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention, such as keeping their scripts on their iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors. After principal photography was complete, Moore was so determined to keep the project a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea. Sundance similarly declined to discuss the film in detail before it was shown. It was called "the ultimate guerrilla film". It has been compared to the work of Roman Polanski and David Lynch.〔 However, many who saw it expressed strong doubts that the film would be shown to a wider audience due to the legal issues involved and the negative depiction of the parks. At the time of its premiere, Disney said only that it was "aware" of the film; since then the online supplement to ''Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia'' has included an entry for the film. Rather than suppressing the film, Disney chose to generally ignore it, and the film was released simultaneously to theaters and video on-demand on October 11, 2013, through PDA, a Cinetic Media company.〔Zeitchik, Steven (August 19, 2013). ("Guerilla Disney film 'Escape From Tomorrow' headed to theaters". ) Retrieved August 19, 2013.〕 ==Plot== A montage shows visitors on the rides at Walt Disney World Resort and the many visuals and animatronics that accompany the rides. It ends with a man losing his head while riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. On the last day of a family vacation at Walt Disney World, Jim White (Roy Abramsohn) gets fired by his boss during a phone call, while out at the balcony of the Contemporary Resort Hotel with his family. He keeps the news to himself to avoid spoiling their vacation. During the call, he notices a white van pulling up to the hotel. Behind him, his son Elliot (Jack Dalton) locks the balcony door and Jim has to call his wife Emily (Elena Schuber) to be let back in. The family leaves their room and takes the monorail to the park, alongside two French teenagers, Isabelle (Annet Mahendru) and Sophie (Danielle Safady). Later chance encounters with the girls increase his interest in them and he begins to pursue them. Jim has disturbing visions during the rides, such as the audio-animatronic characters' faces scowling evilly and his family getting a demonic appearance. After a fight with Emily, springing from his decision to take Elliot on Space Mountain (which gives Elliot motion sickness) to keep chasing after the French girls, he takes his daughter Sara (Katelyn Rodriguez) to the Magic Kingdom and keeps tracking the girls while his wife and son return to the hotel. Later, the son of a wheelchair-bound man, whom Jim had spotted earlier, shoves Sara, who scrapes her knee. Jim takes her to the park nurse, who while treating his daughter, seems extremely unsettled by the "cat flu" apparently spreading among the parks' patrons, noting "You could be a host and not even know it." Jim and Sara meet a mysterious woman with a glimmering amulet necklace which hypnotizes Jim. He blacks out and regains consciousness mid-coitus with the woman in her room. Afterwards, she claims that the parks' wholesome, costumed princesses are actually part of a secret prostitution ring that services "rich Asian businessmen". Increasingly unnerved, he makes an awkward exit with Sara and eventually joins his wife and son at the pool, where he sees the French girls. He swims closer to begin a conversation, but his wife notices and berates him. His family returns to Epcot, where the tension between Jim and Emily comes to a head after a drunk Jim vomits while on the Gran Fiesta Tour. Spotting the French girls, Emily argues with Jim about his obvious interest in them and slaps their daughter. Embarrassed, she returns to the hotel with Elliot, leaving Jim and Sara to ride on the Soarin' attraction, where Jim fantasizes about a naked woman who promises they will be together soon. After the ride and spotting the French girls once again, Sophie approaches and invites Jim to come with them, but he refuses after having a brief vision of Spaceship Earth crumbling and exploding, so she spits in his face. After she walks off, Jim notices Sara is missing. He searches frantically for her, but park guards suddenly knock him unconscious by electrocuting him in the testicles with a Taser. Jim awakes in a secret detention facility under Epcot's Spaceship Earth. Around the room are pictures of the woman he had fantasized on the Soarin' ride. Video screens display images of events that happened earlier in the film. A scientist activates a helmet resembling Spaceship Earth which covers Jim's head and scans him while images of what the scientist calls "the real Jim" appear on the screens, being himself dressed differently and apparently part of another family. The scientist discusses Jim's flights of fantasy and imagination, telling Jim that he has been part of an experiment by the Siemens Corporation since he first went to the parks as a child with his father; his boss is in on the conspiracy and his firing was all part of the plan, as was the closure of the Buzz Lightyear ride just as he and Elliot approached the boarding area, much to his son's distress. Jim is told he was supposed to have turned in his son to them, like Jim's father had done to him as a child. Jim escapes by damaging the instrument panel with a medical ointment and by decapitating the scientist, revealing him as an android. He escapes the laboratory through a manhole and searches for Sara when he trips next to the wheelchair-bound man, suspects and attacks him. He realizes he is causing a scene and doubts the man's involvement, so returns to the room of the woman with the hypnotizing necklace. There he discovers she has captured Sara, now wearing a Snow White costume. The woman rambles about her time as a character princess and tells him how bad things happen everywhere, including decapitation at the park. She again hypnotizes Jim with the necklace, but Sara pulls it off and smashes it, freeing Jim from her spell. He returns to his hotel room and puts his family to bed. Jim then suffers digestive distress and vomits up a large amount of blood and hairballs and begins have visions of the incident on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which he recognizes as symptoms of the cat flu. He begins to panic and bleed uncontrollably in the bathroom. Elliot enters and Jim begs him for help, but he closes the door on him. Next morning, Emily finds Jim's corpse, which now has cat eyes and a grinning face. Disney cleaning staff appear to remove evidence of the death and fill Elliot's head with false memories of riding the Buzz Lightyear attraction. They take Jim's body to the unmarked white van from the opening. Meanwhile, the valet from the video screens greets the "real Jim", accompanied by the fantasy woman and a young girl, before they check into the hotel as the valet watches the van drive away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Escape from Tomorrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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