The number 23 is a 2007 American film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Jim Carrey (Walter Sparrow) and Virginia Madsen (Agatha).
This film focuses on the search , by the protagonist, (Walter Sparrow) the author of a book (number 23).
As in the Oedipus story, our protagonist lives "blind " with his wife and son until one day, on the occasion of his birthday, his wife buys this book will lead to obsession. As you progress in reading is a large overlap, notes that his whole life revolves around the number 23 (his birth date, the sum of social security numbers, your home ...) and also finds many similarities between the book's protagonist and himself (like playing the saxophone, his parents committed suicide, liked detective comics ...) and is then believed to must find the author of the book since it must be a person who knows you well.
Walter's wife, Agatha, she plays various characters in the story of Oedipus. First is his wife, who unlike the story we read does not save any kinship with the protagonist, try this search away as does Jocasta. As the end of the movie is about, Agatha takes the role of messenger which makes seeing her husband it is he himself who is so eagerly seeking. But to tell Walter reality and disbelief listening accused of being her fault, so reminiscent of the passage which says Oedipus Creon guilty of the evils of the city after it was he who killed Laius with to take its place.
In the book Jim Carrey's character is reading narrates the murder of a young woman who later discover that it's Laura Collins, a girl he fell in love with the protagonist himself but it was a relationship doomed to failure because She confessed that she had never loved. He betrayed by anger, he kills and is housed in a hotel while Laura enters the room the teacher with whom she had relations. This teacher makes the mistake of touching the murder weapon and blood hands dirty so when the police arrive he becomes the prime suspect. The teacher enters the prison and our protagonist decides to jump from the balcony of your room. Due to the impact, Walter admitted to a mental hospital and when he gets out, not remembering anything about the murder, met his future wife.
Finally, when he discovers the truth and return to the hotel where he tried to commit suicide, remember that there was where he wrote the book, of course, has 22 chapters written in leaves and Finally on the wall of the room. Although attempts suicide again, at the last moment decided to do what is right and go to the authorities and confess his crime because he is an innocent person imprisoned, the teacher. Could have committed suicide, as initially thought, or just have left things as they are, that it could have chosen the easy road but he decides to do the right thing and take his punishment . Oedipus does something similar: he decides to leave Thebes that is what he had announced he would do with the person who killed the king of the city before he arrived and this time, it really injure themselves to stay blind.
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