![]() Both horror-like and depressing, this film also has a confusing ending, like many others on this list. It’s most likely a few alternating realities as we try to piece them together. Several flashbacks occur, and Jack wakes up in different places, sometimes in a morgue, sometimes in a mental hospital, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere. During Jack’s search for the truth, we also meet Keira Knightley, but slowly the film starts to question what time is real, as the viewers and Jack get lost in the past and the present. Adrien Brody can perfectly reflect the suffering and the sadness of the whole world.Īfter being declared dead, Jack finds himself alive back in the United States and is treated for amnesia. This film contains almost every element of every genre and can’t decide if it’s a horror, mystery, psychological or travel-based film, but in general, it’s all of them at the same time. “That was the first time I died,” whispers Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) as he gets shot by a boy in Iraq, back in 1991. What’s it like to be alive after death? The bad thing is – everyone who committed suicide thought that they were escaping misery, but they had to think twice. It will mostly make you think about everything you’ve ever loved and lost, and most likely the afterlife. Zia soon finds out that his loved one, Desiree, also killed herself, and he goes on a search for her with his new friend, Eugene. He committed suicide because of his girlfriend.īut apparently fate has not been kind to people who commit suicide and a purgatory-like wasteland awaits them. But also it’s a place where Zia finds true love and friendship. ![]() It’s so boring that you don’t even want to kill yourself again. ![]() Goran Dukic shows and represents an everyday life in a place where everything seems dull. Trevor’s paranoia, along with his insomnia, puts him in a state of mind when everything seems like an illusion.Įver wondered what happens after we die? Surely, everyone wants to know that, but what happens when we kill ourselves? Well, “Wristcutters: A Love Story” is a film about a place where people go who commit suicide. Just like “Memento”, we have to work our way to put the pieces together. Trevor is reading Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” at the moment and the film itself has its influence. Or he’s just a part of Trevor’s imagination, because the shop owner claims that there’s no such thing as Ivan.ĭuring the film, Trevor experiences flashbacks from his past life. ![]() But there’s one strange thing about this Ivan – he does not exist. And soon he meets one of the employees – Ivan – who also lost his fingers once. His everyday life is changed afterward because of his distraction, and a co-worker loses his hand during their shift. A hooker, Stevie, and a bartender at the airport, Marie. Brad Anderson presents a loner, a middle-aged man, disliked at his work, suffering from chronic insomnia, who only goes to two women who are kind to him. Roughly 121 pounds – that’s how much the main character, Trevor Reznik, weighs. ![]() This is a role for which Christian Bale suffered quite a lot, as he lost almost 60 pounds. There are many theories out there trying to define the existence of the matrix, reincarnation, life after death, and also the phenomenon of déjà vu.Īs mentioned above, many writers and directors find it quite interesting, and sometimes they deliver really good films that make the viewers rethink their own existence and question the reality in which we live in.īelow are the best films and directors that made a huge impact, not only in sci-fi, but also established a new vision in alternate reality and parallel universes that seems so close but yet so far, and probably hard to believe for some people. It may also refer to humans, as we all are living in a different reality that is separated by a single quantum event. It is an abstract concept that includes a parallel universe, a place where different actions of a different species take place. Alternate reality is a topic that every writer and director wants to work with and write about. ![]()
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