The Kovak Box story
The Kovak Box is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Daniel Monzón and starring Timothy Hutton, Lucía Jiménez, Annette Badland and David Kelly. Synopsis: An American horror/science fiction novelist finds the plot of one of his stories unfold around him after a conference in Spain.
12 total · 7 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brain implant | major | The evil scientist Frank Kovak paid a network of criminals to implant people with neural devices that when activated, drove people to suicide. |
| coping with a terminal illness | major | The main antagonist Frank Kovak set his dastardly plan into motion after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. |
| coping with suicide | major | David was left searching for answers when fiancée, Jane, jumped to her death from their hotel balcony without any warning. |
| coping with the death of a lover | major | David was left searching for answers when fiancée, Jane, jumped to her death from their hotel balcony without any warning. |
| creative writing | major | David Norton, the protagonist of the story, was a famous science fiction novelist. |
| facing a genius adversary | major | It was up to David Norton to stop the disgruntled scientist Frank Kovak from mind controlling multiple people into committing suicide. |
| mind control technology | major | A main novelty of the film is a neural implant that induces whoever has it in them to take their own life upon hearing the 1933 song Gloomy Sunday. |
| coping with being in debt | minor | A man consented to remove neural implants from corpses in exchange that his debts to be paid off. |
| engaged couple | minor | Jane happily accepted when David proposed to her near the seashore. Later that same night Jane inexplicably threw herself out from their hotel room window to her death. |
| romantic love | minor | David and Jane were in the throws of love, but then Jane tragically and inexplicably threw herself to her death from their hotel balcony. |