Pacy, Bendy, Bright and Dark

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2004)

Let me start with my fav aspect of the movie, its name. I pondered on that for nearly 5 mins before I gave up and just went to see it. It was the complete surprise that made me enjoy the movie in entirety. Carrey has done some marvelous bits of acting and the characters and their roles were so wierdly and accurately placed that it easily fit into your mind. Ok, Elijah did a nice job for the tiny role he got, and yes for the first few minutes I was thinking abt LOTR of and pretty excited at seing Baggins all dressed up in a yellow spotted shirt and dark tie sporting a wierd beard. I tried to get a glimpse of his feet but nope, they never focussed on that. Anyway, I'm deviating here, from the point. From the begginning the story had its own momentum and kept picking pace which I like being a staunch disliker of PDL kind of movies. And the camera, screen play and interchange of focus was so smooth that it felt pretty real. Now I am trying hard not to tell anything abt the story so as to let you get the full experience, but the scene to scene change was brilliant. My favourite is when Carrey comes out of the bookstore and enters the living room of his house with lights switching off in the background. So well imagined and best of all, somehting that is getting pretty rare these days, almost no technical/logical flaw. Nothing that makes you realize that this is just a story. Suffice it to say I feel bad abt not catching Adaptation and Being John Malkovich and will do so the very next opportunity I get.