Stop This With Yr Maths Nonsense…
The Number 23 brings together a dream team in trash cinema: Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey in a potentially apocalyptic horror combination. Now when you see the name Joel Schumacher, you don’t necessarily think horror: not that kind of horror anyway. Equally the same with Jim Carrey - the gurning horror of comedy is the closest we have got to a frightfest from him. But here they combine together to give us the horror of numerology: Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23. A scary prime if you will - as Wikipedias 23 numerology page suggests, but its still only a number. And that’s what age ain’t nuttin’ but…
The trailer gives away many of the films ridiculous plot twists, but my favourite is delivered in a rush of 23 facts is this:
“Two divided by Three is Point 666“
The suggestion is that this makes 23 the number of beast by proxy. EXCEPT 2/3 DOES NOT EQUAL 0.666, and 0.6666666666666666666666666666(and so on) is clearly not the number of the beast, you’d never fit it on a little kiddies head for a start.
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FT's Pete Baran on February 1st, 2007
Is Morezoom not working anymore? Bah…
Well a horrible Jim Carrey face should get the techboy to fix it.
Al Ewing on February 1st, 2007
Unless I’m embarassingly confused, Tom was born on the 23rd of March 1973 and if you add all the digits in 3/1973 together YOU GET 23 NOOOOO
FT's Admin on February 1st, 2007
more zoom IS BACK! it dropped out for a bit when we went 2.1
Tom D. on February 1st, 2007
Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23
What, Jim Carrey playing the lead role in a biopic of Genesis P-Orridge? Count me in!