The Dead Zone
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1983 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Cast | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen |
| Genre | Suspense film |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Dead Zone | – |
| Español | La zona muerta | La zona muerta |
| Français | Dead Zone | Dead Zone |
| Deutsch | Dead Zone | Dead Zone |
| Português | A Hora da Zona Morta | A Hora da Zona Morta |
| Italiano | La zona morta | La zona morta |
| Русский | Мёртвая зона | Myortvaya zona |
| 中文（简体） | 死亡地带 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 死亡禁地 | – |
| 한국어 | 데드 존 | Dedeu Jon |
| ไทย | The Dead Zone | – |
| Tiếng Việt | The Dead Zone | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | The Dead Zone | – |
| 日本語 | デッドゾーン | Deddo Zōn |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which future vision and moral intervention collide within irreversible knowledge.
■ Synopsis
A man awakens from a coma with psychic visions and is forced to confront whether foreknowledge creates a duty to act.
■ RECIPE Tags
#Foreknowledge #MoralIntervention #FateAndChoice #BurdenOfVision
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Knowledge before event
Reason: The protagonist receives truth before ordinary reality can confirm it.
Related Film: Minority Report - Middle: Vision as moral burden
Reason: Seeing disaster in advance turns passivity into ethical complicity.
Related Film: The Sixth Sense - Core: Killing to prevent catastrophe
Reason: The final question converges on whether future evil can justify present violence.
Related Film: Looper
■ Secondary Axes
- Gift as isolation: Supernatural perception separates the protagonist from normal human life.
Related Film: Powder - Prophecy against public order: Private vision collides with political reality and social disbelief.
Related Film: 12 Monkeys
■ Person
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen
■ Structural Tags
#ForeseenCrisis #EthicalIntervention #IsolatedWitness
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanCinema #1983Film #StephenKingAdaptation
