What Just Happened??

You know those movies that get to the credits and all of a sudden you think to yourself, "What just happened??" Yeah, sometimes those can be the best ones. Your so wrapped up in trying to figure out the topsy turvy plot line and all of a sudden its over and immediately you press the menu button and start the movie all over. Sometimes those are the best!

For instance, the movie STAY starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling is definitely one of those movies. Ryan Gosling plays a suicidal college student who informs his psychologist Ewan McGregor that he plans on killing himself in three days. Determined not to let this happen McGregor spends the next three days figuring out Goslings secrets. With help from his girlfriend, Watts, McGregor is on a race against the clock straddling the line between life and death. The movie moves so fast and so twisting that it keeps your attention throughout the whole 99 minutes and begs you to watch it again immediately following the credits. I would definitely recommend this movie if you are looking for a good mind bending watch!

The Jacket staring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley made in 2005 has the same effect after watching it. It stars Adrien Brody as Jack Starks, a man who knows little about himself other than the fact that he is being treated in a psychiatric facility. Jack is a Gulf War Veteran who is undergoing treatments that provide him with the information that although he is being treated in 2007 he really died in 1993. Keira Knightley provides the timeline appearing as a child in Starks 1993 images and a teen in his 2007 images. The plot takes the audience through ‘eerie events that reach beyond time, beyond fantasy, beyond life itself. Sounds confusing? Try keeping up with the movie, it’s quite a thriller!