| Sunday |
| You see what you want to see |
For those of you who have watched the movie The Number 23, i am certain that you understand the meaning of my title; You see what you want to see. This is the first time i walked away from a psychological thriller feeling rather enlightened, as oppose to long miserable nightmares.
I'll give you a brief rundown trying not to spoil the film.
Living a supposedly stable and ordinary life with loving wife and teenage son, walter sparrow (Jim Carey) was a man with no worries, until one unlucky day, he was given a book the number 23 by his wife, when his life flipped and the past returns to haunt him. Over the course of a few days, walter becomes obsessed with the events in the book in which the main character seemingly followed a life identical to his. The number 23 brings upon unpleasant thoughts and memories for walter, driving him insane and soon his life spirals in on him. The simple number 23 brought with it a life full of love, hate, sex and suicide.
The number 23 engima derives from the Discordian belief that all events are connected to the number 23, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. Just like The Law of Fives states simply that: all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5. The Laws of Fives is a symbol, just like the number 23, for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just like when you set out shopping for a yellow shirt, suddenly every shop you pass you notice all the yellow items, when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them. So will one find conspiracies when one decides to look for them. One cannot be wrong as the mind has the power to perceive truth in anything and everything, when you want it to, thus it comes as no surprise that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided sufficient cleverness.
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
For Carey, he subconciously becomes obsessed in the number 23 that he would managed to relate all things in life to that very number. Whether it's through division, addition, multiplication or subtraction, and even through the manipulation of irrelevant numerals such as 5 (2+3) and 32 (23 flipped), Carey strives to obtain his target. It is no wonder how this drove him to the brink of sanity.
Seeing what you want to see can be regarded as narrow mindedness, stubbornness and even ignorance. This type of selective sighting can bring you happinness and sadness, and even madness. |
posted by sciurine @ 3:08 PM   |
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I thought it was a bit weird that Jim Carrey got the role. I thought he primarily does comedy.
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omg! i saw 23 too. it was good! and kinda freaky. but good! (: how're you girl! haven't seen you around uni! hope you're good!
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Sorry for such a delayed response! Been so completely caught up and overwhelmed by the whole new experience at clinic placements, not to mention the increase in work load!
Jingo: yeah, so true, but he did exceptionally well in this one! It's almost like Rowan Atkinson when he picked up a supporting role in James Bond. Who would've thought Mr.Bean could speak!! hehe
Tngying: The movie was so strange, but nonetheless enjoyable =) Yeah, i don't think we'll get the chance to run into each other much 'cause i've started my clinical placement at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Maybe we can organise a lunch and catch up some day...
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I thought it was a bit weird that Jim Carrey got the role. I thought he primarily does comedy.