Country:
Belgium/Canada/Germany
Recognizable Faces:
Jared Leto
Diane Kruger
Directed By:
Jaco Van Dormael.
Mr. Nobody is a movie about entropy. I know, it's an awful subject to make a movie about. Let alone write a story. For those unfamiliar with the term, entropy in a nutshell is this. Take a pencil and break it in half. From now, you can only alter it some more and never give it back its original form. You can make a million wood splinters with it, but never a pencil again. That is because of the forces of entropy. Things in the universe moves toward a state of chaos, because the universe constantly expands. So, Mr. Nobody applies the law of entropy to the life of a human. So as soon as he gets his little heart broken, it can only gets worse and worse, and there's nothing he can go about because the universe expands and blah blah blah....
So Nemo Nobody (Pretty Boy Jared Leto) hasn't been touched by the angel of oblivion before he was born (you know, that cutie pie story about the mark humans have on the upper lip?). So he's blessed with the gift of seeing into the future. Now, this is where it starts getting confusing. Nemo is a 118 years old, looking back on his life, or should I say his lives, all depending on the choice he will make to follow his mother or stay with his father when he's nine years old. That makes two possible lives no? Well, Nemo doesn't have two lives, but three. And there are many possibilities to them, so let's say six lives in all. All of those lives are sad and full of regrets and hardships and blah blah, he's a physicist studying entropy in one life, blah, blah fuckin' blah. So you, the viewer, have to decide what the real life is.
The biggest problem I had with Mr. Nobody is that it has no clue whatsoever of what it's trying to say. In traditional Jared Leto fashion, all there is to the movie is poor pretty boy falling in love, just to see life shit on him at every street corner. But all scrambled up. There's no precise notion of time, because you know, entropy and all. The characters have a few clever lines about science, but it's just a plot twist to make a beautiful, artsy movie.
Because it is beautiful. It's also incredibly well-crafted. If director Jaco Van Dormael would have tried to say something with his movie, I have no doubt it would have been beautiful. But it's entrenched in its own images, like Narcissus in front of the mirror. Nemo is just a sucker for love, who's paralyzed by the forces of entropy, which condemn him to a fatalism some would call emo. The memories, dream, hypnosis and reality sequences keep alternating with great flow and instinct, they are highly colorful and detail oriented, but they are empty of meaning. Now,I have no problem with a movie empty of meaning if it's being humble about it, but Mr. Nobody is not.Van Dormael (what a dreamy name huh?) has taken thirteen years to craft this film and he should have taken two or three more to make it relevant.
Mr. Nobody is like that very superficial person in a dinner party, who wants to start talking philosophy just to hear the sound of their own voice. The subject is interesting, it looks very good, but it has nothing to say. It's not too bad, but it's infuriating with pendatry. To a point I couldn't think of a moment you should take out of your busy schedule to watch this.
SCORE: 50%
So Nemo Nobody (Pretty Boy Jared Leto) hasn't been touched by the angel of oblivion before he was born (you know, that cutie pie story about the mark humans have on the upper lip?). So he's blessed with the gift of seeing into the future. Now, this is where it starts getting confusing. Nemo is a 118 years old, looking back on his life, or should I say his lives, all depending on the choice he will make to follow his mother or stay with his father when he's nine years old. That makes two possible lives no? Well, Nemo doesn't have two lives, but three. And there are many possibilities to them, so let's say six lives in all. All of those lives are sad and full of regrets and hardships and blah blah, he's a physicist studying entropy in one life, blah, blah fuckin' blah. So you, the viewer, have to decide what the real life is.
The biggest problem I had with Mr. Nobody is that it has no clue whatsoever of what it's trying to say. In traditional Jared Leto fashion, all there is to the movie is poor pretty boy falling in love, just to see life shit on him at every street corner. But all scrambled up. There's no precise notion of time, because you know, entropy and all. The characters have a few clever lines about science, but it's just a plot twist to make a beautiful, artsy movie.
Because it is beautiful. It's also incredibly well-crafted. If director Jaco Van Dormael would have tried to say something with his movie, I have no doubt it would have been beautiful. But it's entrenched in its own images, like Narcissus in front of the mirror. Nemo is just a sucker for love, who's paralyzed by the forces of entropy, which condemn him to a fatalism some would call emo. The memories, dream, hypnosis and reality sequences keep alternating with great flow and instinct, they are highly colorful and detail oriented, but they are empty of meaning. Now,I have no problem with a movie empty of meaning if it's being humble about it, but Mr. Nobody is not.Van Dormael (what a dreamy name huh?) has taken thirteen years to craft this film and he should have taken two or three more to make it relevant.
Mr. Nobody is like that very superficial person in a dinner party, who wants to start talking philosophy just to hear the sound of their own voice. The subject is interesting, it looks very good, but it has nothing to say. It's not too bad, but it's infuriating with pendatry. To a point I couldn't think of a moment you should take out of your busy schedule to watch this.
SCORE: 50%
