Memoirs and Misinformation: A Novel

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Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.” If it weren’t for Carrey’s brilliant humor, and Vachon’s taut, lyrical prose, I might not have been able to take this grim version of Hollywood culture. Jim Carrey, Drama King, is an apocalyptic persona within an apocalypse. He exposes the underbelly of acting, agents, celebrity, and privilege, while yearning for friendship, romance, and meaning. A man's (Jim Carrey) discovery of an obscure book about the number 23 leads him on a descent into darkness. As he becomes more obsessed with its contents, he becomes more convinced that it is, in fact, based on his life. To his horror, he discovers grave consequences in store for the book's main character. Imagine if The Snowman ( “Mr. Police …”) had been even worse of a flop, so much so that you didn’t even notice that it was ever released, and you have Dark Crimes, a dirge of a would-be thriller that features Carrey doing his darndest to erase every single ounce of his charisma. It works, so congratulations for that, Jim, but we really need to talk about the Polish accent he tries on for the role. For all its grim seriousness, the film’s depiction of violence against women is over-the-top and exploitive, and the whole thing makes you want to take several showers afterward. There might someday be a thriller in which Carrey works as the lead; he clearly wants to keep trying. But with this and The Number 23, maybe the universe is trying to tell him something. Simon Birch (1998) It's weird, it's dark, it's satire, it's biography ... there's aliens and celebrity bashing and even some hippos. And I still have no idea what I just read.

My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe jog as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

I know it's become a popular trope to claim that comedians are often the darkest people, but I have little sympathy/empathy for a guy waddling in his own self pity from a cozy 10 million dollar Malibu Beach house. Jim has been on the decline in my psyche for sometime now... his odd role choices in movies, his complete weirdness on Seinfields Coffee and Cars, his incredibly downer presence on the Actors Roundtable discussion, and now this book...

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.” Frank Darabont’s attempt to make a Frank Capra film is so desperate and blatant about its inspirations that you keep expecting “DOES THIS MAKE YOU THINK OF FRANK CAPRA?” and “OKAY, HOW ABOUT THIS?” title cards to keep popping up on screen. Carrey does his best Jimmy Stewart, but neither he nor Darabont have the edge or shadings that Stewart and Capra sneaked in to keep their movies honest. Carrey’s all-American cheerfulness and scrubbed-clean optimism work in the right role, but here, the whole movie drowns in glucose. A Christmas Carol (2009) A meandering and sometimes pointless story that tries to be odd for odds' sake, but makes you wonder, more than once, if this book would be published if it weren't for the fact that Jim Carrey wrote it. Tikrai ne kartą googlinau kai kuriuos faktus. Jim Carrey yra nuostabus aktorius ir jo paties gyvenimas tikrai vertas biografijos, tad ir čia bandžiau už kažko užsikabinti. Bent už mažiausio teiginio, kuris galbūt tiesa. Bet ar tada atsakymas būtų pateiktas google? Nemanau. Patys slapčiausi norai, mintys ir išgyvenimai taip gerai paslėpti, kad sunku juos aptikti, o prisidengiama ironija bei satyra. Nes kas kitas, jei ne tu pats, kuri savo gyvenimą ir gali viską sumalti į vieną, juk literatūra, fikcija neturi ribų. Čia autorius ir žaidžia visomis savo turimomis galiomis. Even though, usually, a stream of consciousness novel is deliciously gripping; “Memoirs and Misinformation” fails in that there is no character growth or arc and Carrey is not likable. He is a self-pitying fool and obsessed with sex. On the other hand, Carrey successfully shows his broken interior and doesn’t attempt to gloss it up to be popular which is admirable especially for an individual so obsessed with being liked and accepted.Daugiau fantastikos elementų nei pačiuose Jim Carrey filmuose. Kaip ir skelbia viršelis, romanas tikrai yra apie žmogų vardu Jim Carrey. Tik čia daugiau fikcijos, satyros, ironijos bei misinformacijos nei memuarų. Pradėjau skaityti vedama vienos idėjos, geriau susipažinti su aktoriumi, jo vidiniais demonais, išgyvenimais, tačiau jau po pirmųjų puslapių buvo aišku, kad ši knyga yra visai kas kita nei tikėtasi. Čia gausiai minimos žymių žmonių pavardės, pašiepiami gyvenimo guru ir mokyklos, išgyvenama dėl filmų scenarijų, atrandama meilė ir net prasideda pasaulio apokalipsė.

a b Mosley, Tonya; Hagan, Allison (July 21, 2020). "Jim Carrey Goes Beyond Meta in New Novel Memoirs and Misinformation". Here & Now. WBUR . Retrieved September 12, 2020.

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Carrey's novel, co-written with Dana Vachon, is a wonderful surprise - part memoir, part fiction. The novel follows Carrey as he rebounds from a post-I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS career slump by finding love and battling an alien invasion alongside Kelsie Grammer and Nic Cage. It may be about mental illness. Or it may just be about an alien invasion. Either way, Carrey's book has a lot of satire against the Hollywood machine - fame and the pursuit of accolades - but more importantly, it has a lot of empathy. Even as he skewers his fellow actors, he does so lovingly, trying to find the humanity behind their outlandish, weird behavior and, in the process, showing his own humanity. Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over.