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11 Movies That Will Make You Go “Huh?”

When you watch a lot of movies, every once in a while you’ll come across one that baffles you, and the range of reactions to this encounter are pretty fascinating. These types of movies aren’t simply the mindtrip types of movies like Inception or Memento that are labyrinthine in terms of their plot progression but are fairly clear by the end in what they’re about. Truly confusing movies, the type where you’re left wondering what the hell you just watched and what the point of it even being made could have been, can create responses anywhere from anger and resentment towards seemingly pretentious filmmakers to delight in the abstract, personal meaning a viewer can derive from something deliberately vague or opaque.

3) Holy Motors

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Holy Motors

I still don’t know what the hell to make of Holy Motors. You’ve got this weird little man who traipses through the streets over the course of a day and night, apparently doing his job which consists of acting out bizarre scenes with other people. Odder still is that one of the first scenes that he participates in, performing in a motion capture suit with a partner in a kind of dance that seems meant to be some kind of sex simulation, is unbelievably beautiful and compelling in a way that keeps you entranced throughout. This is then followed by him changing costumes into a crazy street person who eats plants and assaults people. Pretty charming.

None of it is meant to make too much sense, I don’t think, although plenty of critics have speculated about possible meanings contained within Holy Motors, such as the whole thing acting as a commentary on the state of cinema and the transition from film to digital technologies or something. I’m less than convinced of this.

What I am convinced of is that this is a mystifying and wonderful movie, puzzling in what it’s supposed to express (if anything that specific) yet seemingly certain of what it has set out to achieve. It’s not jaw-dropping in the Spielberg sense, but perhaps in the way seeing an artist going absolutely ball-out, so to speak, can leave your jaw on the floor in amazement and incomprehension.