Review of I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) by Randomdude — 05 Jun 2011

Pleasantly surprised.

Granted the role of Steven Russell(Jim Carrey) was totally over-the top, but well... the source IS over the top. He's well.... let's be honest, crazy. Not a sociopath or psychopath, but... kind of amoral, and manic.

I'm not one to beat the retarded drum of the over-hyped manic-depressive mantra (hmm... some people have extremes of emotion, what a shock! We ARE a diversity.) Anyway, what hit home with me most, only because I've met crazy people in positions of... well if not authority, leadership... They just feel crazy and wrong, and yet everyone around goes along with it. I've seen this in RL a few times. So, this movie kind of connected with me at that level, the understanding that most humans are emotionally stupid.... and have horrible gut impressions, which are totally wrong.

Could Steven have sucked me in for a day... prolly. For a week, prolly not. I have a way of stumbling out of delusion, maybe it's genetic -- I don't know. I'm not a follower, so can only take bs so long before my brain revolts.

Anyway, decent flik... def entertaining, worth watching.