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Carrey chilling in 'Number 23' thriller
Jim Carrey plays the role of a dog catcher who goes insane after reading a mysterious book.
Michael Felletter
Issue date: 4/11/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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The Number 23 is a movie filled with suspense, thrills and endless mathematical nonsense. Jim Carrey plays the role of a delightfully more serious character named Walter Sparrow who falls into the insane chasms of a novel simply titled "The Number 23."
Sparrow's wife Agatha, under happenstance, comes across this book in a local book store and buys it for her husband as gift for his birthday. When Sparrow begins to read the book he is eerily reminded of his own pass and events of his childhood. After reading more paranoia takes hold of him and he begins to suspect everyone around him of writing the novel as a confession to a murder committed years ago.
In the end Sparrow discovers his own murderous past and is forced with the decision to commit suicide or to go on with his life, for the sakes of his son and wife.
Kim Green, major of Special Education, says she finds the movie realistic because "It's something that could happen in real life… in your life you [could] lose memory and somebody could write a book for you."
This thriller is successful on a few plains. The first being because of the way the film is presented to the viewer, it does not demand as much as other films do as far as thought, but rather brings the viewer into the same playing field as Sparrow. We the viewer experience everything the character Sparrow does when he discovers how closely reality and the book both coexist. Beyond that fact, we collect the same information that Sparrow does at precisely the same times leading us to make similar conclusions about the other characters in Sparrow's reality life.
Jim Carrey experiments in making a totally different type of film than is known or expected of him. The comedian takes a outright 180 in his acting career and actually pulls it off, well. "He seemed a totally different person (actor), I didn't recognize him in the first five minutes. Having Jim Carrey acting as a serious role makes it [The Number 23] different than other movies." Green said.
Carrey did exceptionally well in a role that most would assume that he would be entirely too immature and unable to pull off as a serious character. After this film by Carrey one can only hope he will again dare into the world of thrillers and suspense in an effort to bring some diversity to these genres and for viewers see a more favored face.
Sparrow's wife Agatha, under happenstance, comes across this book in a local book store and buys it for her husband as gift for his birthday. When Sparrow begins to read the book he is eerily reminded of his own pass and events of his childhood. After reading more paranoia takes hold of him and he begins to suspect everyone around him of writing the novel as a confession to a murder committed years ago.
In the end Sparrow discovers his own murderous past and is forced with the decision to commit suicide or to go on with his life, for the sakes of his son and wife.
Kim Green, major of Special Education, says she finds the movie realistic because "It's something that could happen in real life… in your life you [could] lose memory and somebody could write a book for you."
This thriller is successful on a few plains. The first being because of the way the film is presented to the viewer, it does not demand as much as other films do as far as thought, but rather brings the viewer into the same playing field as Sparrow. We the viewer experience everything the character Sparrow does when he discovers how closely reality and the book both coexist. Beyond that fact, we collect the same information that Sparrow does at precisely the same times leading us to make similar conclusions about the other characters in Sparrow's reality life.
Jim Carrey experiments in making a totally different type of film than is known or expected of him. The comedian takes a outright 180 in his acting career and actually pulls it off, well. "He seemed a totally different person (actor), I didn't recognize him in the first five minutes. Having Jim Carrey acting as a serious role makes it [The Number 23] different than other movies." Green said.
Carrey did exceptionally well in a role that most would assume that he would be entirely too immature and unable to pull off as a serious character. After this film by Carrey one can only hope he will again dare into the world of thrillers and suspense in an effort to bring some diversity to these genres and for viewers see a more favored face.
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