Trance, director Danny Boyle’s latest film, is a story about a young man, Simon, played by James McAvoy, who works in a high profile art auction house and who during a robbery heroically attempts to protect a Goya painting from the robbers.... Except that (previously) he has amassed some serious gambling debts and has let these debts be cleared by an accomplished criminal, Franck, (played by Vincent Cassel) for which in return he agrees to help Franck and his henchmen steal the Goya painting from the London auction house where he works. Except that he tricks Franck and steals the painting himself. The protagonist is also in on the robbery.
Except that previous to the robbery Simon has gone to a hypnotherapist, Elizabeth Lamb, played by gorgeous Rosario Dawson, to help him overcome his gambling addiction. However she then breaks professional protocol and they begin a relationship which then devolves as Simon becomes obsessively and violently in love with her. And so she, in order to get him out of her life and take revenge, has put him back into his gambling addiction and programmed him to steal the Goya painting so she would eventually get the painting herself, her “compensation” for the torment he has caused her.
Except that Simon got hit on the head during the robbery and having stolen the painting can’t remember where he'd hidden it. Now he has Franck torturing him and Elizabeth lamb delving into his mind to dig out the truth.
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