Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

[Arcadia]

[size=1][color=sienna][b]I recently saw this movie at the Student Life Center on my campus, and I like it so much I went and saw it the next night. It was beautiful. There are so many shots in that movie that are just perfect for the moment, and then there are more than a few scenes in the move that make you hold your breath without realizing it. Then the scene's over and you wonder why you've got this tightness in your chest and why your toes are going numb... yeah, that's how good it is. Specifically for me, I'm thinking:

[spoiler]The scene during the Gong Show; he puts the gun to the joke man's head, and looks like total crap. The best part is when the hammer song starts and everything slows down, and you see him against this ribbon wall and everything's in blue.

Also, the night seen when Sam Rockwell walks out on his pool deck to talk to George Clooney, and you see all the blood in the water, and you just think "Well, ****."

The other part that comes to mind is when he's walking through the studio and he keeps remembering everything he's done, and he's see the set piece that looks like the snowy alley way, and then behind that the woman in the black veil. Yeah, that whole Happy Birthday thing would mentally scar me, too.[/spoiler]

It was written by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, and both of [i]those[/i] movies were awesome. And if you've seen either one of those movies, you'll know that his approach to screen writing is a little... odd. Fantastic, but odd. And you know, that makes it even better.

So yes, kids, go see this movie. You won't be disappointed.[/b][/color][/size]