The Imaginarium is about a Doctor that was at a sanctuary for telling stories about the universe. He figures out that the universe is sustained as long as there is someone who is willing to tell a story. He loves the imagination and the creativity that comes with it. He makes a lengthy wager with the Devil that he can inspire 15 disciples to follow him in his quest for creative vision. He wins but finds out that the Devil let him win in order to torture him with Everlasting Life. His daughter (Valentina) is the ultimate bargain for the Devil, who will come to collect on her 16th birthday. This is due to her father wanting mortality to be with the woman of his desires.
Unfortunately, her birthday is coming up soon. When flipping over his fortune-teller cards, he turns over the hanging man. The next few moments, his troupe finds a hanging man (Heath Ledger) and saves him. Later, he uses him to try to inspire more money for his traveling carnival. This hanging man is the disgraced chair of a notable children's charity. he wants to save their show and he inspires many a crowd to come and watch. He changes, while in the Imaginarium, into Barry/Roger (Johnny Depp). Tony/Heath is discovered in the crowd by Russian chief operatives, who want him brought in. They all go into the Imaginarium only to discover that they now speak English and are being wooed by a Jude Law advertisement. Through the Devil's entrance into the Imaginarium, the four Russian men who go in get entranced into joining with him. We are finally told why Tony was hanging as the Russian laundered dirty money through his charity. Anton saves Tony from the dream world. Anton has been with the traveling sideshow for a long time, picked up off the street by the traveling family a long while ago. He is in love with Valentina and stays just to try to protect her from everything that is going on. Tony pushes her into the mirror entrance and transforms again, this time into Colin Farrell.
Colin Farrell as Tony lives his fantasy with the success of his charity and the endorsement of the President (who looks to be strikingly similar to FDR). However, the fantasy comes crashing down and he hits/abuses Valentina, who decides to leave him and their two children. One of their children turns out to be Anton, who falls to his demise just after admitting that he loves her. Valentina is about to make her choice to hell but the Devil stops her and forces her into a dance. She decides to go into the mirror anyway and becomes the Devil's fifth. The Devil even seems remorseful at how all this works as he wanted to capture Tony. Tony has alluded him for years and is suspected by the Devil to have satanic markings protecting him. He guarantees that he'll give back Valentina to have Tony. Tony is forced to then choose by the Doctor over which pipe is his. He makes the wrong choice and is tricked into being hanged and left for dead. The Devil claims him and returns Doctor Parnassus into the world. He wanders and sees Valentina, who is now free. She is married to Anton and has a beautiful daughter with him. Percy comes to the Doctor and helps him to revise his show and turn it into a puppeteer. The puppeteer sells well and becomes a prime figure for his ideals to come alive to a new generation of kids.
Overall, the editing in this movie was very confusing and could be thought of as almost amateur-ish. But it was this type of editing that made this thriller impossible to forget. It was very well-done and there were brilliant performances from Heath Ledger, Lily Cole, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. I'm pleasantly surprised at how puzzling and mysterious this film turned out to be and will be sure to re-watch it in the future.
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