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Confusion refers to a state of uncertainty or lack of clarity, often experienced by viewers when they encounter non-narrative and abstract films that challenge traditional storytelling methods.
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- '2001: A Space Odyssey'
- 'Inception'
- 'Memento'
- 'The Matrix'
- 'Predestination'
- 'Fight Club'
- 'Arrival'
- 'The Shining'
- 'Nocturnal Animals'
- 'Interstellar'
Despite being more than 50 years old, Stanley Kubrick’s epic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey still ranks as one of the most confusing movies, garnering 4,200 internet searches per month. It seems audiences are still reacting as actor Rock Hudson did at the film’s premierewhen he shouted, “What is this bull***t?” before storming out of the cinema....
The first of Christopher Nolan’s films to appear on this list, the sci-fi action film Inceptiontakes place inside a character’s mind, making it difficult to differentiate between real life and dreams. In other words, it’s confusing by design. Nolan’s dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream narrative, with characters sharing an interconnected dream spac...
Christopher Nolan, take two! The neo-noir mystery thriller Memento centers around Leonard (Guy Pearce), who has anterograde amnesia, meaning he suffers from short-term memory loss and an inability to form new memories. RELATED: Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked from Least Confusing to Most Confusing The film’s disorienting, nonlinear narrative is wh...
Generating 5,200 searches per month, The Matrixmay have changed filmmaking forever, but it also left many people scratching their heads. The now more-than-20-year-old cyberpunk action film revolves around the conflict between humans and machines. Grounded in the concept that reality is an illusion and has serious philosophical underpinnings, the mo...
Predestination is a film about time travel. More specifically, the theoretical predestination paradox. A predestination paradoxoccurs when a person traveling back in time becomes part of past events and may even have caused the event that led to them traveling back in time in the first place. According to the theory, history is “predestined,” and t...
Watching David Fincher’s Fight Clubmultiple times illuminates previously unseen themes, overtones, and foreshadows. But for viewers who’ve only watched it once, it resulted in 5,900 online searches a month asking, “What the—?” RELATED: ‘Zodiac’ Worked Because David Fincher Didn’t Give You What You Wanted Fundamentally, Fight Club is a critique of t...
Arrival explores the idea of time and how it's perceived, stitching together present and future events into a single timeline. The movie’s reliance on placing time—already a confusing concept—in the context of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativityis probably the reason why it has 6,000 online searches per month. The Sapir-Whorf hypoth...
Another older Stanley Kubrick movie that continues to confound, The Shining, brought in monthly online searches of 6,300 in 2022. RELATED: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Works Because Mike Flanagan Put His Own Spin on Stephen King It’s well-known that horror writer Stephen King hated Kubrick’s re-interpretation of his story. Where King’s source material relied on ...
Racking up 6,600 searches per month by people asking “please explain,” it’s evident that Tom Ford’s second feature, Nocturnal Animals is a head-scratcher. The confusion arises because of the structure of the neo-noir psychological thriller. The movie is about Susan (Amy Adams), who’s sent a manuscript called “Nocturnal Animals” written by her ex-hu...
Interstellar is simultaneously the most and least confusing of Christopher Nolan’s movies. True to form, Nolan adopts his convoluted narration, but in terms of narrative, Interstellar is much more straightforward than Inception. The high-level astrophysics overlaying the movie's narrative perplexed audiences and led to 7,100 searches per month. Fea...
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Act 1: Cliches and Confusion. Act 1 does its job of setting up the characters and the story world, but it’s full of cliches, and it jumps back and forth in time, which Nolan tries to simplify by using black and white to portray the historical elements, except it doesn’t, because it leaves us confused about which time setting we’re in.
- Donnie Darko. 2001. 2,775 votes. In the eerie, yet fascinating movie Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal portrays the titular character; a troubled, sleepwalking teen who is plagued by visions of an apocalyptic future.
- Mulholland Drive. 2001. 2,124 votes. In David Lynch's puzzling masterpiece, Mulholland Drive, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), an aspiring actress, finds herself entangled in the enigmatic life of Rita (Laura Harring), an amnesiac woman.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1968. 2,125 votes. In Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and his crew embark on a mysterious journey to Jupiter, guided by their ship's artificially intelligent computer, HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain).
- Primer. 2004. 1,030 votes. In the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Primer, Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), two engineers moonlighting from their day jobs, stumble upon a discovery that alters the fabric of reality: time travel.
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