![So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8kn8lZPYb1qz4x70o1_500.jpg "So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.")
So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.
