Jonathan
8/10
Full
of spoilers. I just finished watching this movie called Jonathan on
Netflix. It came out last year and I've never even heard of it. This
is one of those movies that you find on accident and end up really
enjoying. I only checked it out because of the star of this. It
starts with this guy leaving video messages and then watching them
the next morning and going about his routine each day. It turns out
that this is actually John and Jonathan, two brothers that share one
body. How? Why? They get to that later. Try to find real scientific
reasons why and your head will explode. Jonathan works as an
architect. His exercises every day, goes to work, eats right, makes
sure he is in bed for his brother John to enjoy his evening. Yeah. Jonathan has control from 7am to pm and John has it from 7pm to 7am.
The video messages they leave are things like what they did, who they
talked to, and if they need groceries or whatnot.
Jonathan starts wondering about what John is up to because he is not eating
dinner that was made, picking up after himself, and generally
slacking off. In the videos John is chill as fuck. Jonathan is very
straight laced and adheres to the rules. Things like no lying and no
girlfriends. Jonathan hires and private investigator who thinks he is
crazy because he is being paid to follow who he thinks is Jonathan.
He sees that John is seeing a girl named Elena which he has never
mentioned and against the rules. Jonathan continues to go to work and
be responsible and John is becoming more careless and staying up all
night making Jonathan tired. One day Jonathan decides to start
following Elena who spots his ass and talks to him. He has no idea
who the hell she is and she asks if something is wrong. She even says
it's the first time she has seen him during the day.
Jonathan talks to Dr. Nariman. She is the one who gave the device that keeps
the brothers on schedule. It is later revealed that when John was a
baby he would scream and cry and could not stop. The doctors tried
everything and it turned out that two personalities were in one body
so she made the device that kept shit in order. Everything is fine
and good for years but now Jonathan is waking later. He leaves a
message telling John that he needs to break up with Elena. John says
no and they end up message fighting. Jonathan wakes up drunk on the
floor and watches the video John left saying it is over with Elena.
Jonathan tries explaining his situation to Elena and she thinks he is
crazy but eventually starts to come around. The end up hooking up
which is terrible.
Jonathan keeps it secret from John. Dr. Nariman tells Jonathan to tell John
which he does not do but she does and John heads to Jonathan's job,
wrecks shit, and gets him fired. It also turns out there was once
three brothers but the doctor had one erased. Oh, and before Jonathan
got fired he woke up with a black eye because the private
investigator saw him and asked about Elena not knowing it was John
and not Jonathan. An argument ensued and John got clocked. Jonathan
ends up moving in with Dr. Nariman to be treated because John is
taking antidepressants and miserable. John wants to be erased but
Jonathan refuses to let it happen. Jonathan wakes up on a bridge and
sees that John left a video message on a bridge saying he is going to
jump eventually. He wakes up repeatedly running towards the edge of a
building getting closer to the edge. He ends up chaining himself to
bed with a combination lock and John does not know what the numbers
are.
As I
watched this I kept thinking “There is no way this can end well.”
I was satisfied with the ending and could not imagine it another way
that was better. I loved the look of this weird ass movie. I also
like when some sci-fi movies or series have technology that is super
advanced but doesn't try to explain it because it either sounds
stupid or is so technical that it just folds in on itself. I liked
that they focused on Jonathan more even though I read some complaints
that they wanted to see more of the John character. I more like the
idea of the one trying to hold shit together having to deal with
whatever John does like when he wakes up in a room with a woman and
some coke on the table.
Ansel
Elgort as Jonathan/John
Patricia
Clarkson as Dr. Mina Nariman
Suki
Waterhouse as Elena
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