The I Inside (2004)

The I Inside
DirectorRoland Suso Richter
Genrespeculative fiction film
Runtime87 min
CountryUnited Kingdom, United States
Budget$8.8 million
Box office$72,962

Plot

Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital in 2002 with no memory of the past two years. Dr. Newman informs him that he briefly died and is suffering from memory loss. Simon believes it is the year 2000 and does not recognize his wife, Anna. A distressed woman named Clair visits him, but when he follows her, the hospital staff insists no one was there. Dr. Newman tries to help Simon piece together his past. He learns that his brother, Peter, died before he met Anna, contradicting his belief that Peter was still alive when he last saw him.

An orderly takes him for an MRI, where Simon is injected with an unknown substance by an intruder. He wakes up in 2000 instead, where a different doctor, Dr. Truman, tells him he was admitted due to a car accident and that he has no wife. In this timeline, he meets a patient named Traffid and recognizes Nurse Clayton, who he had previously seen in his "dream" of 2002. He also discovers that Clair was originally engaged to Peter and that he is suspected of involvement in Peter’s death. Anna, who is a nurse at the hospital in this timeline, plays a recording of Peter accusing Simon of killing him, and she attempts to blackmail him into marrying her.

Simon returns to 2002, where he explains what he saw to Dr. Newman who says Simon is having hallucination as a result of an anti-anxiety medication. While Dr. Truman no longer works at the hospital, Traffid is on the fifth floor awaiting surgery and remembers Simon from two years ago. Later he returns to 2000 and thinks he sees the same intruder from the MRI room and later stabs him. However, when the lights come on, he realizes he has actually stabbed Traffid. He runs away and returns to 2002 where Traffid is unharmed; however, suddenly the stab injuries appear and kill him. Simon has a flashback and remembers pushing Peter out of a window during a fight, then trying to dispose of the body by rolling it off a cliff. However, he was caught in the act and forced to flee. Determined to change the past, he returns to the night in his family home when he confessed his love to Clair. This time, he chooses to walk away from her out of loyalty to Peter. Clair runs after Peter as he leaves, but Simon still accidentally pushes him out the window during their confrontation. Instead of trying to cover it up, Simon takes Peter to the hospital.

While driving, Simon is tailgated by another car, and Peter briefly regains consciousness, distracting him. Simon loses control and crashes into a car, killing Clair that was returning to speak to him. EMTs arrive, including a woman who resembles Anna. Simon, severely injured, hears familiar words from an EMT before blacking out. He finds himself in his family home where Peter is present. Simon hears Dr.Newman tell him he must let go. However, Simon refuses desperate for another chance. The next scene is Simon dying on a hospital bed, time resets, and he wakes up as he did at the start of the movie, in 2002.

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