Comments on: Mindjob Movie A Perfect Enemy Recommendation

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:31:38 +0000

Yes I’m not sure about where exactly it takes place either but I agree with everything you are saying. We usually are on the same page!

By: Erika Lown

Erika Lown — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:20:41 +0000

Yes! Lisa! I watched this last night with my husband and he was saying something similar like maybe he had all of this crazy in his head because he was in Paris at the very airport he threw his wife in. I’m not sure if I agree that the whole psychological mind job happened on the plane itself, but I think that he starts to unravel as soon as he steps into the airport, maybe as soon as he gets to Paris. Maybe he’s conflicted with the hypocrisy of his life. He again compartmentalized the horrible things he did in Paris. He’s gone around the world to be the ‘best’ part of himself, but when he goes back to Paris his perfect enemy shows up, the one that has always been waiting for him to come back. He has to face this in order for his perfection. Remember he says something like achieving the perfect is when there’s nothing to take away. Is he trying to take away this part of himself to be his version of perfection. I don’t know, but it was an interesting and original watch. I like how the onion of a good guy peels back some disturbing, messed-up shit. Gets you thinking about all the philanthropists and great people of the world. What do they have to hide?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:19:06 +0000

Ok so I was just pondering this movie again while I was in the shower. Yes, I’m a weirdo. Anyway, towards the end TT says to J that to look as he’s still on the plane. In my mind this entire movie takes place in his mind while he’s on the plane. He obviously steers clear of Paris not due to sadness but to avoid the scene of the crime so I think he’s only able to hold it together for so long while there until his mind starts to crack and that’s when this movie starts. Possibly when the guy is putting him in the taxi and mentions that he knows it’s hard for J to be in Paris although it’s hard to tell in this film what’s real and what’s imagined because obviously they don’t stop and pick up another passenger. So I think this strengthens my theory that the mindjobness of this film is not the revelation that TT isn’t real but rather it’s more about getting an inside view of someone’s brain who is obviously very disturbed. To me it was pretty obvious she wasn’t real and I never thought she was his daughter. The changing of the terminal model tipped me off right away that we were dealing with a very unreliable narrator.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:17:24 +0000

This is definitely a disturbing movie. I mentioned the reviews on Discord and people either loved it or loathed it but the people who loathed it say it’s too easy to figure out. And I agree with that except for one thing. When we see the blood spatters and things changing on the model of the terminal in the beginning of the film we know from the get go that J isn’t right in the head so it’s easy to understand that TT may or may not be real and I don’t think the filmmakers intended it to be a mindjob in that way but rather for us to watch the unraveling of this man and how he fights his inner demons if that makes any sense which makes it worth watching despite it not being a grand reveal. I mean the bathroom scene is pretty early on in the film and he just goes on talking to a chick he thinks stalked him in the bathroom with a knife? Also if you notice, the credits roll the wrong way at the end which just adds to how unsettling this film really is and we know he’s going to go on fighting his own head. Maybe when you get that interview you can get your timeline questions answered but I would say he’s just incredibly unstable and as unreliable of a narrator as can be. This was a good one!