JELLYFISH

Over winter break I saw this beautiful Israeli movie called Jellyfish. This movie was rather odd, but at the same time it was so cute and special and enlightening. This movie reminded me a lot of Chungking Express in the way that it connected the lives of completely random people. There was so much attention drawn to this too. The fact that random people were connecting with each other who had no relationship what so ever just seconds before they meet. It's really cool to think about. And the more I think about it, the more it appears to be like Chungking Express. There are three separate groups of people and within those groups there are very unique individuals. It is interesting to see these groups interact. They interact in small random ways, just like in Chungking Express. For example they will just pass each other in the street, or bump into one another, or something small and insignificant like that. But when I think about these small interactions, the relevance of them becomes obvious. I think the director is trying to show the viewer that when you encounter someone in your life, even if it just for a moment, they have something going on within them self and you are completely unaware of. I mean again, it's kind of an obvious concept, but at this point I've realized that a lot of the concepts in movies are obvious and overdone at times, but it is the way these familiar concepts are portrayed that makes them so wonderful and profound and unique.