'Number 23' reverses itself on viewers
By Alicia McCameron, Staff Writer
32 reversed is 23….. 11:12 p.m. 11+12=23. Coincidences?
I think not.
In Number 23, Jim Carrey stars as a dogcatcher who dreams of being a detective. This tale of obsession begins on Walter Sparrow’s (Carrey) thirty-second birthday when his wife, played by Virginia Madsen, gives him a used book called “The Number 23” for his birthday. He begins reading the book and quickly notices some very strange similarities between his life and that of the book’s main character, the slick detective Fingerling.
Watch carefully so as not to loose track of which scenes are reality which are fantasy as Walter reads.
The further he reads on he realizes that the story becomes even more eerily similar to his past.
Soon Sparrow not only becomes obsessed with the book, but with the main characters’ fixation on the number 23.
It is not long before he starts finding the number everywhere around him in his daily life.
His insistence on finding who and why this is happening to him soon threatens to destroy both he and his family.
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