The Air I Breathe

The Air I Breathe is a 2008 drama film and the directorial debut from Korean-American filmmaker Jieho Lee, who co-wrote the script with Bob DeRosa. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser, Cecilia Suárez, Clark Gregg, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker, John Cho, Julie Delpy, Kelly Hu, Kevin Bacon and Andy Garcia. The film was financed by NALA Investments through its production company NALA Films. The film was released on January 25th 2008 in the US.

The concept of the film is based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones – Happiness (Whitaker), Pleasure (Fraser), Sorrow (Gellar), and Love (Bacon). The proverb speaks of these emotions, not as isolated fragments of feelings, but as elements that make up the whole of the human existence. Each of the four main protagonists is based on one of the four emotions; and like the proverb their paths are inextricably linked to each other.

None of the four main characters' actual names are mentioned in the whole film, although Gellar's character's stage name, "Trista", is mentioned several times. ("trista" means "sad" in Catalan, "tristis" means "sad" in Latin and "triste" means sad in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.)

Forest Whitaker plays a bank employee who loves butterflies. When he accidentally overhears a sure bet at a horse race he decides to bet $50,000, borrowing from the bookies. Unfortunately he loses the bet and gets caught by Andy Garcia (Fingers) who runs that gambling/betting pool.

Fingers derives his name from his habit of cutting off the fingers of those who don’t pay back their debts. When Fingers threatens Whitaker that he will cut off his fingers if he doesn’t pay his debt of $50,000, Whitaker decides to rob a bank. After fleeing to a roof the police order him to drop his gun. He does not comply, throwing his bag with money into the street, and is killed by the police. When he hits the ground his coat is spread out making him look like a butterfly.

Cast

• Forest Whitaker as Happiness
• Brendan Fraser as Pleasure
• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Trista/Sorrow
• Kevin Bacon as Love
• Andy Garcia as Fingers
• Emile Hirsch as Tony – Fingers' nephew
• Julie Delpy as Gina
• Will Maier as Mr. Park
• Clark Gregg as Henry
• Cecilia Suárez as Alison
• John Cho as Bart
• Kelly Hu as Jiyoung
• Jason Dolley as Young Pleasure
• Todd Stashwick as Frank
• Jon Bernthal as Interviewer

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