Strange but Excellent

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2001)

After looking at some of the other comments for this great film, I felt somewhat obligated to put in my two cents. It seems as if a lot of the people who said that they didn't enjoy this movie were trying to find something wrong with it, and if you are watching with that in mind, you are pretty much guaranteed to hate it. The so-called "flaws" in the plot are completely neccesary to get the point of this movie across. In a roundabout way, the main premise behind this movie is the age-old question "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" The only way to really understand the main character is to not understand some of the details surrounding his situation. The point of this movie is to make you ask questions, not answer them. The main "flaw" that everone seems to point out is how he remembers that he has his "condition". What everyone seems to ignore is that the condition leaves him with no sense of passing time, so nobody really knows how long he has been like this. It has obviously been long enough for him to adjust to the situation, and this is shown by the fact that he knows he has to write things down and take pictures of people. Lets face it, if someone was not aware of a condition like that, they wouldn't be able to survive in daily life and even the tattoo that reminds him to remember Sammy would be a way to understand the condition. Anyway, enough of that. As long as you are not trying to figure out ways to attack the storyline, or the director, or the hundred other things that the so-called "movie buffs" are always looking for, this is an excellent, original movie. It may take a day or two to sink in, but eventually the fact that you really don't know what exactly happened makes this movie that much better. The key to this movie is not asking why or why not, it is asking "What if?"