movie review - The Nines
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2008.01.19
This is a clever science fiction film that tracks three stories that are interwoven in a way that is at first utterly impossible to guess.
As things go on, it slowly becomes that the main character (in his three guises) is not exactly human. He's more of a god, actually, incidentally deluded by the irresistable nature of the artificial world he's created. Our world, that is.
Two things stood out in this movie. The lead actors both did a bang up job (including a rare-for-Hollywood appearance of an overweight woman). Second, the revelation of the main character's godhood was done in such a way that it compliments the rest of the plot rather than trampling on it.
Recommended.