Finally I got a chance watch “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”… After the reviews I’ve saw about the movie, I had low expectations for this, so I was quite surprised to have so much fun with it…
Again, it’s the usual Terry Gilliam mixture of insanity, good storytelling, and above all, leaving stuff to the imagination of the viewer…
The film is as good for what it shows, as it is about what it implies… most of the tale of the Doctor himself is hidden and implied, and as such, we can build his entire story in our minds, which for an imaginative person is very cool…
The reviews were a tad cruel to this one (I wonder what exactly were they expecting, to be honest), but for me, the movie hit the mark, with superb acting (even the workaround with Johnny Depp, Collin Farrel and Jude Law to offset Heath Ledger’s death), and more importantly, a non-conventional story, which seems to go in the direction of the “love-conquers-all” persuasion, but takes a U-Turn and goes to some very dark and unexpected paths…
All in all, I liked it very much and strongly recommend it to everyone…
To finish up this post, just a nify link: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html … This is for programming geeks like myself, but it’s a good laugh for those… 🙂