The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

I watched this movie for the sole reason that this is the last movie Heath Ledger had done before he passed away and actually he died before he was able to finish this movie which explains the weird ending but all in all the movie was good. It's not all the time you'd get to see Heath Ledger, Johnny Deep, Jude Law and Collin Farell in one movie after all.

One office friend said that he doesn't understand the movie. Hmmmm...it's actually pretty understandable. There's this monk (Doctor Parnassus played by Christopher Plummer) who made a bet with a devil. The devil gave Parnassus the ability to enter people's mind through his imaginarium. Their bet involved convincing a person to take a side. For Parnassus of course it's the "right" path while the devil of course was there to tempt the person to go the other way. The first bet was for Parnassus immortality --- he won --- only to find out that the Devil had let him win cause the Devil knows that immortality will only make him a lonely man due to changing times. Parnassus fell in love with a young woman and since he's already old he knows there's no way for her to fall for him. For him to restore his youth, he once again made a pact with the devil and later on, he found him self making a wager with the devil one more time, this time around, his daughter's life is at stake.

It's almost the end of the movie when the story line just started falling apart which of course in general was mostly because of Heath's absence. I miss Heath. T_T

But again, the movie was good all in all. A movie about choices. True, there will be people who will try to show us "the way" but at the end of the day it will still be us who will get to decide which way to go. And this serves as a reminder, never put a wager with the Devil.

Rating: ★★★★☆