Movie Revue: Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Heath Ledger's last movie (God rest his soul) was a ride of a lifetime! It was a blast! I had a blast watching it! I can't even tell the diff between the others-Johnny Depp & Jude Law-who took over his role after his death. They seemed so similar that I thought they were all the same person! Jude Law & Johnny Depp did a good job taking over Heath Ledger's role.

SPOILER'S ALERT!!!

As for the story, I love it to pieces! It was about Doctor Parnassus selling her daughter to the devil. When she turns 16, the devil gets her. In exchange, the good (or bad?) doctor gets immortality and infinite, magician powers to explore your imagination. Whenever the doctor is at the lowest peak of his life, the devil turns up and they make a new bargain. He even manages to get youth so that he can woo his future daughter's mother, but the devil has one deal to make with this. When the kid turns 16, the kid is turn over to the devil. After his daughter finds out about this, she threatens to run away to live a normal life.

Enter Tony, Heath Ledger/Johnny Depp/Jude Law's character, who changes the Doctor Parnassus' show for the better, reaping them in lots and lots of dough. Tony wants to escape reality so he escapes into his imagination, which turns hideous 'cause he's hideous. He has some dark secrets that no one on the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' crew knew about until the other guy of the group got it out of him; the daughter is always defending him, but the other guy says Tony betrayed them with his secrets. Then Tony comes up with this idea to draw more customers to the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. They were sold!

But then he entered with the daughter the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, that's when everything changed... Tony & the daughter were in a boat with nice view and everything but everything has its price doesn't it? The pleasantness has a downside to it... They suddenly saw a kid, and then become public figures when they find the kid, but is it for real or is it their imagination? After they find the kid, they become public figures for Missing & Exploited Children or something like that.

But then, men start to chase Tony, and that's when things go wrong. He start to hit everybody-even little kids, the daughter who thought she loves him, but when he starts to hit her, she starts to hate him. Tony even hit Doctor Parnassus. Eventually, the devil make a deal with Doctor Parnassus. If the doctor gets rid of Tony, then the daughter is free of the previous bargain. So Doctor Parnassus gets rid of Tony-I mean everybody else's gets rid of Tony. They hang him 'cause they hate him. Doctor Parnassus ends up being a beggar. His daughter ends up marrying the other guy and having her own daughter. Doctor Parnassus is able to get out being a beggar with the help of a midget (Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies) without the help of the devil and continue entertaining a new generation.

I like how the daughter was able to get out of doing what she hated and lived a normal life without her father; she doesn't need to depend on her father. After all, she's an independent woman. She was able to build a family of her own; her father's life wasn't what she wanted. Neither was the other guy. I found the father (Doctor Parnassus) lame because he was trying to entertain with the help of a midget. Isn't that lame? I think so.