The Nines - Your life is just a game
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Nines - Your life is just a game |
| Original title | The Nines |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John August |
| script | John August |
| production |
Bruce Cohen Dan Etheridge Dan Jinks |
| music | Alex Wurman |
| camera | Nancy Schreiber |
| cut | Douglas Crise |
| occupation | |
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The Nines - Your life is just a game (in the original The Nines ) is an American movie from the year 2007 by John August with Ryan Reynolds , Melissa McCarthy and Hope Davis .
action
During the opening credits you can see a man tying a green bracelet around his wrist. Then the plot is divided into three parts.
Part One: The Prisoner
TV actor Gary ( Ryan Reynolds ) is placed under house arrest for arson and substance abuse . There he is looked after by the agent Margaret ( Melissa McCarthy ) and meets the neighbor Sarah ( Hope Davis ). However, Gary gets more and more the feeling that the house is haunted and that he is being followed by the number nine. Among other things, he finds a note with the inscription “Watch out for the nines” in his own handwriting. On a forbidden excursion he meets a mute girl who tries to tell him something using sign language. But Gary doesn't understand and is finally picked up by the police. He is now receiving an electronic ankle cuff and is becoming more and more obsessed with the number nine. Sarah, who is kept away from Gary by Margaret, tells him that there is indeed something wrong with the world and that she can help him get out of the situation. When Gary confronts Margaret, she tries to explain to him that there is not something wrong with the world, but with him and that under no circumstances should he leave the marked area with his ankle cuffs. Gary does this anyway and the world around him dissolves in fire.
Second part: Reality TV (Reality Television)
The screenwriter Gavin (Ryan Reynolds) is the owner of the house from part one and is observed in the style of a documentary in the production of a new television series called "Knowing". He can assert himself against his producer Susan (Hope Davis) to cast the role of the leading actress with his long-time girlfriend Melissa (Melissa McCarthy, who plays herself in this part). During a test demonstration, Gavin is addressed directly by a viewer despite the one-way mirror , who tells him that everything is not real and that the end is imminent. Susan instructs him to pay special attention to the test viewers, who gave the film a 9 rating. Gavin then writes on a note “Watch out for the nines” (the same as from the first part). After further discussions with the producers, Susan Gavin announces that Melissa is to be replaced with a more attractive younger actress. When Gavin informs Melissa of the decision, an argument breaks out. Gavin later learns that his show was rejected by the producers and confronts Susan. She tells him that she only wanted to separate him and Melissa with this action. During the following argument, Gavin beats Susan, who then mockingly asks him: “Do you think you are a man? You're not.". Gavin flees into the street and tells the documentation team to leave him alone. A passer-by asks who he would talk to, and Gavin realizes that the documentation team doesn't exist. He looks around and sees the number seven floating above the heads of the people, while above his head there is a nine. In a flashback, you can see the conversation between Gary and Margaret from the first part, in which she tells him that he is a higher dimensional being who can destroy the world with a single thought. Gary doesn't believe her, which leads to him destroying the world as seen in part one.
Third part: Knowing
The computer game producer Gabriel (Reynolds) takes his wife Mary (McCarthy) and his silent daughter Noelle (Fanning) on a car trip into the woods. When they return, they find that the car's battery is dead. Gabriel tries to reach the highway for better cell phone reception. There he meets Sierra (Davis), who does not want to help him at first, but later offers him to take him into town in her car. On a long hike through the forest, she tells him that she knows him and that she killed her ex-boyfriend because he only spent his time with one of Gabriel's games. Meanwhile, Mary and Noelle are looking at the video recordings they made during the excursion. Suddenly Noelle says “he won't be back” and shows her mother the film. You can now see that the trip of the three is actually a scene from the series “Knowing” from the second part. Meanwhile, Sierra tells Gabriel that this is an intervention and that Gabriel, as a higher being, is in a world he has created, from which he no longer wants to leave. She continues to explain to him that he can only leave this world voluntarily. Back at Mary's, Noelle has meanwhile disappeared and, in a panic, Mary goes looking for her. At that moment, Gabriel comes down the path with his daughter on his shoulder and the three of them drive home. There Mary tells him that she knows that he is a higher being and asks him what would happen if he left the world. Gabriel replies that he doesn't know, in the worst case scenario the world would dissolve. The two say goodbye to each other and Gabriel tears off the green bracelet from the opening credits, which all three incarnations have worn, and ends the game. Shortly thereafter, Mary finds herself with her daughter and another husband in her kitchen and says "thank you" to heaven.
Reviews
"Wacky mix of mystery and psychosatire"
"In view of the undeniably enormous potential that the script has, it is a shame, especially the poor formal implementation of the whole."
Production details
John August, previously known as a screenwriter, directed this film for the first time. The film was shot in 22 days in Los Angeles and two more in New York and grossed $ 130,880 worldwide. The film premiered on January 21st at the Sundance Film Festival and was only released as direct-to-DVD in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ John August: So I made a movie ( en ) June 24, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ↑ The nines ( s ) Retrieved on 28 May 2012 found.
Web links
- The Nines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Nines in the online film database