A brain storm of concepts, lives and choices that makes you wonder about your own life

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2014)

Original Title: Mr. Nobody Title in Portuguese: Sr. Ninguém Directed by Jaco Van Dormael Produced by Phillippe Godeau Screenplay by Jaco van Dormael Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham Genre: fiction Countries: France and Belgium
This movie tells us the story of Nemo Nobody, the last mortal human on earth, 118 years old and about to die. A reporter enters in his room and interviews him about his life, then he starts to describe three different lives, that he could have if he had made other choices. Simple choices that could change all his path. Three different love stories, three different families, all starting with the decision of staying with his mother or dad, after they divorce. It's a very complex movie, with scenes out of order, mixed and you can't know until the end which path he chose. This movie makes you think about the power of choices, that once you go one way, you can't go back in time; but, for a moment, anything is possible and all ways are there for you. In his life with Elisa, he could be married with a depressive woman or be depressed with her death. Another path made him to marry Jeane, and be so bored that he tries to kill himself in their pool. The last way made him to live a romance with his step sister, Anna, and they are separated by their families, only staying together another time years later. However, he loses Anna in a short time, for consequences of simple choices he had made, like buying the cheaper jeans months before, what made an unemployed Brazilian guy cook an egg and the steam came until the USA, making it rain and erasing her phone number on his hand. But this life was the only one Nemo was a little bit happy with. I loved the idea on the end of the movie, that all this, all those lives, had passed in Nemo's mind in those seconds in which he has to choose between his mother and father, in a line train, a symbol of paths and directions, in his first big choice. We can see that scene of the last human man coming down as the kid realizes that when he didn't knew the future, he couldn't choose, but now he knows, he still can't choose, and runs away. This film made me think a lot about the power he have to change our own path with simple actions and choices, the power we have to transform our reality into another thing, starting with our own thoughts. Is a very good movie for those who want to see something different from the average movies. It's an original theme, with good actors, a story that gets you from the beginning to the end, and even after it ends, you still can't stop thinking about the messages it brings. The actors make you feel that what's happening is real, you buy what they are saying. The photography is really good, even when they are showing us a future that didn't happened yet, it's futuristic and realistic at the same time. The mix with concepts of physics is sensational, and it fits perfectly into the story, bringing that geniality to the plot.
Tagline: You have to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.