At heart, Miranda Fall is a performance artist. Her creative mind is always thinking about how she can translate mundane experience into one of her art "installations." At the beginning, we see how Miranda appropriated data from the cell phone she had inadvertently found. The life of a stranger named Arthur Anderton is transformed into a public display of his personal life, done without his permission or consideration of his feelings.
This narcissistic approach to art gets Miranda into trouble when her art dealer, Paul Stark (Sam Shepard), who is her erstwhile lover, observes a mugging outside of her apartment window. Because he is reluctant to call the police, Miranda claims that she was the eyewitness and even goes to a police lineup where she is asked to identify the victim.
One thing leads to another and the line between art and reality begins to blur for Miranda. Careless and carefree with the way that she uses other to shape their reality into art, Miranda may be losing her mind. "You've done a bad thing," Arthur Anderton tells Miranda, who has treated other human beings as her playthings to be displayed in her studio.
In the course of the film, Miranda has a fall from grace wherein she discovers what others have felt when they are treated like objects. Her pursuit of the mysterious figure of "S" will culminate in the payoff of the film when everything seems to come back to bite Miranda.
Wounded as a child when she assumed the guilt for the deaths of her parents in a car crash after she asked her mother to find her white shirt, Miranda finally grasps that it is not enough to externalize her grief by placing the shirt in a frame like a picture. It is not even clear if a mad dash to the airport will help to relieve the demons at work in the twisted mind of Miranda Fall.
This narcissistic approach to art gets Miranda into trouble when her art dealer, Paul Stark (Sam Shepard), who is her erstwhile lover, observes a mugging outside of her apartment window. Because he is reluctant to call the police, Miranda claims that she was the eyewitness and even goes to a police lineup where she is asked to identify the victim.
One thing leads to another and the line between art and reality begins to blur for Miranda. Careless and carefree with the way that she uses other to shape their reality into art, Miranda may be losing her mind. "You've done a bad thing," Arthur Anderton tells Miranda, who has treated other human beings as her playthings to be displayed in her studio.
In the course of the film, Miranda has a fall from grace wherein she discovers what others have felt when they are treated like objects. Her pursuit of the mysterious figure of "S" will culminate in the payoff of the film when everything seems to come back to bite Miranda.
Wounded as a child when she assumed the guilt for the deaths of her parents in a car crash after she asked her mother to find her white shirt, Miranda finally grasps that it is not enough to externalize her grief by placing the shirt in a frame like a picture. It is not even clear if a mad dash to the airport will help to relieve the demons at work in the twisted mind of Miranda Fall.