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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 26
Sign: Aries

City: New York
State: NEW YORK
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/21/2006
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
The Number 23
By Dan Frigolette

Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Rhona Mitra


The Number 23 is a psychopathic thriller encased in a wholesome family movie. Jim Carrey a loving father and husband stumbles upon a book that he can't put down. His mind becomes affected by every word and he begins to find similarities in the main characters life to his own. Other read the book and do not end up losing their mind trying to solve it. He tells his wife that he is similar to the main character to which her response is...except you're not a killer.

This story entangles a narrator Carrey, the present world Carrey, and a fictional Carrey as the character in the story he reads. The confusion is enough to create the perfect amount of suspense and intrigue. Each time he peels the covers off his wife's sleeping body we're not sure what pieces of her carcass will still in tact.

The Number 23 is a major player in the story and becomes the story's main villain. Everything awful that happens is based on a character's obsession with the number 23. It is the root of all things. Dates. Ages. License plate numbers can all be traced back to this number. Every person has 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent. The tilt of the Earth's axis is 23 degrees. 9/11/2001: 9+11+2+1=23. The date Titanic sank - 4/15/1912: 4+1+5+1+9+1+2=23, and so on. The movie exposes this concept that various permutations of 23 can be found in everything. And the main character finds it all around him. Under the same notion, they go slightly too far in depth, because an intelligent person can and will realize that you can probably do this with any number if you're looking for it.

Regardless, it takes exactly 23 minutes to start to enjoy this movie and every 23rd word or every 23 minute leads you to one undeniable fact. You should see this movie! And for those easily scared...Jim Carrey CAN do serious that is the scariest part of this film!

Peak of Confusion
Whereas so many reviews of this movie claim inconsistencies and general confusion I feel there is a main chunk central to the importance of any thriller or killer based movie that is present and done well enough...the who dun it! About 23 mins and 23 seconds from the end of this flick one major event breaks way that seems not to fit into the entirety of the story and one small detail seems to point directly to someone we trust throughout. The "I have no idea what is happening" is the joy of this movie. So do yourself and the rest around you who are also confused a favor...shut the fuck up and enjoy what is happening. It's okay to feel stupid sometimes. And guess what you'll feel it again. But don't ask your neighbor or date what just happened 'cause she don't know either. The movie answers all your questions. And if you walk out confused...its your own damn fault.

Environment Highlight
While the following clump of words might not be worth the ink they are written in, I still managed to find it interesting enough to write on my Blackberry on a monotonous subway ride home.

What I noticed as a movie patron who stays for the credits in their entirety, hoping for one more glimpse of action before having to return to my life, was the pattern of the crowd. I sat on the far right end of a row and found everyone in my row trampling my shoes and shin splints to walk all the way across to the exit on the right. When a perfectly identical exit existed on the left side of the theater. Upon further inspection I realized that everyone in EVERY row decided to leave out of the right, knowing full well that the left doors were accessible and working. All 115 people walked out of their separate rows in the same direction like good Christians leaving church pews. It confused me all night till I grabbed my sketch-pad. 115 is a multiple of 23!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3:00 AM
 
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