"Nothing is permanent, not even death."

Last night I finally got to watch The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus starring Heath Ledger, Lily Cole, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits and Andrew Garfield. It was a lot of something... A lot of oddness really. Our main characters- Tony, Doctor Parnassus and the Devil- surprised me in the end, in particular Tony (I guessed there was something more to him considering how his face changed whenever he went into the Imaginarium).


I won't give too much away:
The story is about Doctor Parnassus (played by Christopher Plummer) and his deal with the Devil. The Devil (played by Tom Waits) made him immortal but at a price- any child Parnassus has will belong to the Devil when they turn sixteen. At the beginning of the film Parnassus' daughter, Valentina (played by Lily Cole), is three days away from turning sixteen but of course the Devil is too tempted to make a deal so he promises Parnassus that he can keep his daughter is he collects five souls before he. That brings me to the beautiful travelling show!
The travelling show to the naked eye looks like a typical Victorian travelling show- something you might see with a circus or at a carnival but if you were to pay the doctor a small price you would be able to slip through the onstage mirror and into a world filled with your own imagination. In this world the customer is faced with a choice...

After making this deal with the Devil about collecting the souls Anton (a young man who helps out with the travelling show, played by Andrew Garfield) and Valentina find a man hanging from a bridge. This man, Tony (played by Heath Ledger), is alive but without memory so he stays on the travelling show. Doctor Parnassus believes he was sent to help him. But Anton begins to question whether or not Tony can be trusted considering whenever he goes into the imaginarium his face changes. In the imaginarium Tony is played by Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.


So as you can tell this is quite a story line (and what I've said isn't even half of it). Over-all the film was complicated (and I LOVE complicated), a little intense and a visual masterpiece. I thoroughly recommend it!