Celebrating ambiguity

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2014)

This remarkable film celebrates the ambiguity of life. What-if questions are answered in ways that are visually stunning and emotionally touching.
Have you ever been through an emotional, traumatic, or difficult situation and wanted to just be able to detach yourself from the situation? Maybe to see it from the third person, and imagine the confluence of an immense multitude of events that got you there. Or to wonder how any number of otherwise completely insignificant changes would have taken you elsewhere yet rendering you none the wiser. Perhaps a clearly life-altering choice is materializing before your very eyes.
Mr. Nobody will, in one way or another, visualize all these perspectives. You will enjoy its interleaving of romanticism and harsh reality, in a way that makes it feel very genuine and real in spite of its sci-fi undertones. In this respect, its mixed timeline of emotion, romance, and regret are quite reminiscent of Makoto Shinkai's "5 Centimeters Per Second", and is equally touching.