When ever I discuss a movie I saw, I usually try to avoid spoilers. But for the Nines, I can’t talk about the movie without giving away the movie. However, I need to talk about it because this is one of those thought-provoking movie that you needed to think really hard when you walk out the theater. So everyone spoiler alert*****

The movie is a 3 parts act of 3 seemingly unrelated stories that somehow is related to each other in an twisted parallel universe way. In addition, the characters in all 3 stories are played by the same 3 actors. Here’s the plot summary:

In “The Prisoner,” a troubled television star finds himself under house arrest, with his chipper publicist and disillusioned next-door neighbor providing his only links to the outside world. Mysterious events lead him to question whether one or both women are deceiving him about the nature of his incarceration. “Reality Television“ is a 30-minute episode of “Behind the Screen,” a Project Greenlight-style documentary series tracking the process of creating a network television drama. Having shot the pilot, creator/showrunner Gavin Taylor faces post-production with the help of his best friend (and lead actress) Melissa McCarthy and development VP Susan Howard. “Knowing” finds an acclaimed videogame designer and his wife facing car trouble deep in the woods. Their daughter uncovers information which leads to a difficult and irrevocable choice.

In the end we find out that the actor, the show creator and the videogame designer are all avatars of an “almighty being.” He was so involved with the world he created that he “come down” and play a few of its characters. (90 to be exact) Along the way he forgot who he was and stuck in this world, until signs remind him who he was and someone intervened. Now that I put it this way, it seems straight-forward enough, but it isn’t. The 3 stories overlapped with each other in some freaky parallel universe way. Melissa McCarthy and her different characters seems to be the one who know more than she appeared. While Hope Davis is the one who intervened in all 3 stories. Ryan Reynolds’ actor character temporarily move into the house of his writer character but they were at the same space at the same time but in a different universe, while the videogame designer is actually a character in the writer’s TV show. But the writer is actually an avatar in the videogame designer’s “Sims” like game.

It’s all too confusing but that’s why i like it because this is one of those movie where you can’t figure out where it’s going! I am sure everyone saw those badly scripted movies where you already figure the storyline out before midway and know exactly what the ending will be. Not so much for this movie, it just keep you guessing~ It incorporated so many different idea into it. From some videogame reference of reboot, cheatcode to religious element of creation. It’s an very ambitious script. After the movie I realize one fun fact – Ryan plays an “almight being” who got trapped on Earth and forgot who he was – his on and off (ex) girlfriend Alanis Morissette also played god that got trapped as human on Earth in Dogma.

It’s a movie that would leave you speechless and want to watch it again trying to understand it. I’ll leave you with a quote from the movie that I loved: “Koala bears are the eights, they are telepathic and they control the weather.” and a song that we all know and very fitting to this movie: “what if god was one of us?”

P.S. Ryan Reynolds is ridiculously hot!! :p

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