Beautiful, engaging, sad and thought provoking

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2010)

I was interested in this film after viewing the trailers online. I found it beautiful, engaging, sad and thought provoking. The world of a paranoid schizophrenic teenager who appears to be having insomnia along with nighttime and daytime hallucinations, but is he? Jake Gyllenhall makes this troubled teen into a likable character as soon as he smiles and opens his mouth to speak his first line. We don't know if he's really sick or just really brilliant as he seems to be when he answers his teachers question, and questions them in marvelous fashion. I'm not sure what to make of the ending but maybe there is some heroism or self sacrifice involved, I'm not sure. I'll have to think on it some more or maybe watch the movie again.