Every Life Deserves To Be Lived... Oh, Really!!??

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2015)

At about the one-hour point in the telling of this decidedly tangled, muddled and completely convoluted Sci-Fi, soap opera tale, Nemo Nobody suddenly hollered out "I'm fugging bored!" And, let me tell ya - When it came to my general feelings about this particular study of cinematic schizophrenia, I couldn't have agreed more with Mr. Nobody on that one.
Isn't it funny (even ironic) sometimes how just one, simple line of dialogue (like "I'm fugging bored!"), flippantly uttered by a character, can pretty much sum up the general feelings of the viewer for a movie in a literal nutshell?
I find it quite amusing that the American Film Institute (AFI) actually lists Mr. Nobody as being one of the best European movies of 2010.
To me, that really isn't saying too much. My guess as to why the AFI ranked it in such a lofty position has to do with the fact that Mr. Nobody seems to go well out of its way to emulate many American films included in the same genre.
Though Mr. Nobody did feature some very impressive visuals, I found that it tried, with too much determination, to squeeze the likes of deja vu, alternate realities, and the notorious butterfly effect into its gruelling 155-minute storyline.
And as a final result of this, very little concern seemed to be paid to all of the many, many loose ends that this business was inevitably creating.
If nothing else, this film did introduce me to the word "zugzwang". Though generally useless in everyday conversation, this term means being in a position where you need to make a move (like in the game of Chess), but you don't want to because of the obvious disadvantage it will put you in.