The Lost Room
In the 1960s, there still were hundreds of motels with thousands of rooms along Route 66 as it twisted its way from Chicago to L.A. and back. None of them stood out from the rest until one day when some unknown event at the Sunshine Motel transformed ordinary things into items of wonder.
Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel and many of its mundane contents — a pair of scissors, a comb and so on — gained unique and inexplicable properties on that day, transforming them from ordinary objects into indestructible Objects.
The Scissors can turn and rotate any item in three dimensions. The Comb stops time for 10 seconds when you run it through your hair. The Eyeglasses inhibit all combustion in a 20-foot radius. The Room itself is an unchanging haven and a portal to any destination. But it can also take that which you value more than your own life.
To possess an Object is to possess its power.
Using each Object exacts a physical, emotional or psychological cost from the owner. Just holding one makes you a target for murder.
For decades, maybe since the first moment that the Motel Room was ripped from this reality, cabals have formed to collect all the Objects. As always, some just want unlimited power, and they believe getting all of the Objects will give them that. Others want to prevent anyone from ever again using the Objects.
And though their motives vary, the cabals' tactics are similar. It's said that while you have one of the Objects, you have no friends, only people waiting for an opening.
Police Det. Joe Miller was introduced to the Motel Room when a fatally shot young man gave him one of the most powerful and coveted Objects of them all: the Key to the Motel Room. His life is immediately turned upside down when his young daughter becomes lost in the room. In his relentless quest to rescue his little girl, Joe becomes the target of shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to take from him his only hope of saving her — the Key.
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台譯：【超異能10號房】
在1960年代，從芝加哥到洛杉磯的66號公路上有上百間旅館。一切十分平常，直到一天，在陽光旅館發生了神秘事件，將一些平常的事物轉變成不可思議。
陽光旅館第10號房與其他房間一樣，都有一把剪刀、一把梳等東西。但在那天，這些工具卻由普通的東西變成不滅的「異能物件」。
剪刀，能令任何物件在三維空間裡轉動；梳，當你用它梳理頭髮時，能令時間停頓十秒；眼鏡，能限制燃燒於半徑二十尺的範圍內。房間本身是一個不變的避難所，一個通往任何目的地的門戶。但它也能帶走比你生命更重要的東西。擁有其物，即擁有其能量也能令你成為追殺目標。
數十年來，可能由這旅館房間從真實裡裂開的第一刻開始，已有陰謀要奪取這些異能物件。一些人只想有無限能量，他們相信擁有全部異能物件便能達到這目的。另外一些人則想防止其他人再使用這些異能物件。
儘管他們動機各異，陰謀手段卻相類似。據說，當你擁有其中一樣異能物件，你將會失去所有朋友，只有等待一個開首的人。
當一年輕男子被槍殺，警隊探員 Joe Miller 被派往該旅館房間，該男子並給了他最強及人們最夢寐以求的異能物件：打開旅館房間的鑰匙。當他的女兒在房間消失，他的生命即時被逆轉。在他不懈地拯救其女兒時，Joe 成為虛幻人物的目標。他們會阻止他的行動，奪去他拯救女兒的唯一希望：「鑰匙」。
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只能說，這部電影是我這幾年來看過最驚豔的一部影集
每一樣物件都可重溯一個故事的密度，卻集中敘述
每一條線索看似盲目散亂，又完全關連
片長五個小時，我卻期待它再演五十個小時
那些物件背後的宇宙邏輯到底是什麼？這是我最想知道的。
TM誌 2007.9.28
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