She does this by manipulating her own memories to change the actual events that John sees. The memories do come into play in the story, as you get to see how Anna manipulates John into believing one thing when another happens. There's not that much time devoted into how the entire Mindscape thing came to be, other than the obligatory exposition at the beginning. That's really all the purpose it serves, because this, pretty much, follows the same formula you've grown accustomed to throughout the years. In a way, this is just used to get from point A to point B in a way that's different from the norm. While this film is more a thriller than it is a sci-fi film, you'd think that they'd use the sci-fi aspects to a better effect than they do here. But, in my opinion, this is just an incredibly bland and uninteresting film that wastes an incredibly talented cast. Then again, I don't think its inspirations should have any real bearings on how good this film is, or not. Considering the films that inspired it, you'd think this film would be better. This has traces of Minority Report and Inception in there. This is a concept that's been used in the sci-fi genre for eons now, it seems. This film has an interesting, if not particularly unique, concept.
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