AVClub: The first six minutes of Complete Unknown constitute the most arresting, confounding opening sequence in recent memory. One of the film’s stars, Rachel Weisz, is first seen looking at a room for rent; she tells the landlord that her name is Connie, that she’s just back from touring the Amazon rainforest with a group of botanists, and that she’s planning to study environmental law. No sooner does she say this, however, than the movie abruptly cuts to Weisz in a surgeon’s smock, attempting to calm a badly wounded patient on an operating table. The doctor’s name is Paige. Seconds later, Weisz is Mae, a magician’s assistant in what appears to be China. Then she’s in business dress, surveilling a house in Ohio. Then she’s in bed next to a man with an Australian accent, talking about her years as a teacher back in the U.S. Finally, just before the title appears, we see her swimming out to sea, despite “Connie” having told the landlord a few minutes earlier that she didn’t get into a boat in the Amazon because she can’t swim.
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