Mr. Nobody Early Hype Thread (Sort of out now!)

**Frogacuda** · 21 Jul 2009, 01:36 PM

I don't really agree. I've heard commentary of his as well as seen pages analyzing his movies that try to explain the whole thing, and it's not just some abstraction for the sake of mood. It is a lot of layered symbolic meaning and it's really too much if you ask me.

**arjue** · 21 Jul 2009, 02:49 PM

David Lynch never explains anything from his movies as far as meaning goes and strongly believes that all that matters is what you take from it yourself. He has even gone as far as saying that even he doesn't understand a lot of the abstractions in his films. Fans of his movies may have deciphered meaning from some of his more abstract films, but that's their own doing and has nothing to do with David Lynch himself.

For example, here's a small video of David Lynch explaining where the idea of one of his more famous abstractions (weird guy at the foot of the bed in Twin Peaks) came from.

**Frogacuda** · 21 Jul 2009, 03:05 PM

Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, etc I get it. Mullholland Drive and Eraserhead not so much. It just strikes me as gratuitous and stupid.

In any event, Van Dormael is more Charlie Kaufman weird than David Lynch weird, and maybe not even that much. This is just a movie about an old man trying to get a grasp on his life before he dies. It's really not that confusing.

Previous movies of his followed a man's life at three points and dealt with a theme of jealousy, a movie about life through the eyes of a man with Down's Syndrome, and a story about a pregnant woman whose unborn child speaks to her that he wishes to die rather than be born into a cruel world. They're unconventional, they have some surreal elements, but they're not hard to follow.

**Rumpy** · 21 Jul 2009, 03:37 PM

Jared Leto bugs me, but I'll check this out.

**FirstBlood** · 21 Jul 2009, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Advocate

This movie looks like its trying to be super-intellectual.

No, it doesn't.

It looks like it's trying to be pretty and maybe trying to raise a few questions about fate and blah blah parallel timelines blah blah what ifs blah. And from the trailer it looks pretty damned straight forward, presented as a direct life-long flashback before death.

**Doc Holliday** · 21 Jul 2009, 05:19 PM

Mulholland Drive is a beautiful suicide dream and the best commentary on the part of Hollywood that everyone on this board hates since Sunset Boulevard. …I just now realized there’s an obvious connection between the two movies. Anyways, it doesn't make sense, because it is an interpretation of something no one knows about - death.

**Frogacuda** · 07 Jun 2010, 07:36 PM

So I think this movie is never coming out in the US. Because people suck.

It is, however, coming out on DVD in France pretty soon, and it's in English, so I'm going to buy it. I've heard a lot of positive things about it.
http://www.amazon.fr/Mr-Nobody-Jared...5949962&sr=8-1

**Frogacuda** · 12 Jun 2010, 03:08 PM

Oh, apparently this is out in Region 5 (Africa and Russia?) and thus on the interwebs.

What a strange, surreal, and beautiful movie. It's really strange to see what is basically an art film with an incredibly high budget. It's one of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. It's narratively very fractured, of course, taking place across 118 years, spanning planets and infinite possibilities, but that doesn't get in the way of the scenes having emotional resonance.

It's somewhere between Eternal Sunshine, The Fountain, and Amelie, if that makes sense. It's very true to Van Dormael's earlier work, continuing a lot of his themes and imagery, but I doubt anyone here but me and Almaci have seen them.

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