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Writer: Jaco Van Dormael
Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
Genre: Drama-Romance, Fantasy-Sci Fi
About: A human is born with the unique ability to remember the future. As the boy stands at a train station platform, he has to choose to leave on the train with his mother or stay behind with his father. An infinite number of possible realities arise from his decision. As long as the boy doesn't choose, then all future realities are possible.
Review: Brevity is the cure to bloating...I liked this movie, it's very impressive, but really bloated. Not because it's 2 hours 20 minutes long, but because there's a surplus of unneeded ideas being included for eyeball appeal. The director (who also wrote it) literally throws in every single idea that he must have had.
The main bulk of the movie is thought provoking and expertly done with a high emotional storyline about Nemo Nobody's life. We watch him in different realities as a child, then as a teen, also as an adult. We see how the different realities impact him and those around hm.
The actor who played him as a teen was effective at getting across the pain he felt from being a perpetual outsider. The story arches of his teen realities with two of the girls he would marry in his adult realities, were my favorite.
Jared Leto plays the adult Nemo and the elderly old man too. I liked his story lines, but they didn't feel as developed as the teen stories were.
I thought the futuristic sci fi elements were well done if you like CG eye candy, but they took away from the spiritual tone of the movie and made it more like a golly gee whiz look at that. Luckily most of the film isn't CG.
Mr Nobody is a very hard movie to describe as it's visually and story wise very different and that difference changes through out the movie.
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
Director: Jaco Van DormaelWriter: Jaco Van Dormael
Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
Genre: Drama-Romance, Fantasy-Sci Fi
About: A human is born with the unique ability to remember the future. As the boy stands at a train station platform, he has to choose to leave on the train with his mother or stay behind with his father. An infinite number of possible realities arise from his decision. As long as the boy doesn't choose, then all future realities are possible.
Review: Brevity is the cure to bloating...I liked this movie, it's very impressive, but really bloated. Not because it's 2 hours 20 minutes long, but because there's a surplus of unneeded ideas being included for eyeball appeal. The director (who also wrote it) literally throws in every single idea that he must have had.
The main bulk of the movie is thought provoking and expertly done with a high emotional storyline about Nemo Nobody's life. We watch him in different realities as a child, then as a teen, also as an adult. We see how the different realities impact him and those around hm.
The actor who played him as a teen was effective at getting across the pain he felt from being a perpetual outsider. The story arches of his teen realities with two of the girls he would marry in his adult realities, were my favorite.
Jared Leto plays the adult Nemo and the elderly old man too. I liked his story lines, but they didn't feel as developed as the teen stories were.
I thought the futuristic sci fi elements were well done if you like CG eye candy, but they took away from the spiritual tone of the movie and made it more like a golly gee whiz look at that. Luckily most of the film isn't CG.
Mr Nobody is a very hard movie to describe as it's visually and story wise very different and that difference changes through out the movie.
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