Numb

Numb (2007)

--Harris Goldberg

Here is another one I should have just reviewed back in the day, since I remember very, very incredibly little about it. Okay Matthew Perry plays a guy who suddenly looses all connection with reality. It's really hard to explain his actual condition as it wasn't presented adequately in the film (which is one of my biggest criticisms of it). There were a couple scenes that attempted to show how he was feeling cinematically (if that makes sense) but those same techniques could also be used just to show that someone is drunk. Anyway, he says basically that he is "numb" to everything (I can't remember if that means he can't literally feel certain sensations or something as well, it's mostly a psychological perspective think though). He kind of like views himself and his life and his actions as if he is watching another person doing them (I think that's the basic idea). Anyway, obviously since it took me like a long paragraph to even describe this guys emotional state, the film left me confused on this point, since for the most part he seemed to interact with others kind of okay, which totally downplayed his situtuation. Most of his problems seemed to happen internally and only really affected him and not anyone else.

Okay, that was too long! Haha, that's all I really remember, except he meets some chick he kinda falls for and, you know, they run into problems or whatever, it's the basic plot to all romantic comedies except his lives in a disaffected state. Oh, and I think he has sex with his therapist, maybe that's a problem too. I can't really remember.

Anyway, this was kind of an okay film and it was nice to see Matthew Perry in something again. But, like I said, this film left me really confused as to what was actually going on with this guy and his condition and how this apparently was so damaging (since as I already stated he pretty much seems to be able to interact with others often in normal ways). Oh well, life's like that sometimes I guess.