[Movie Monday] Me, Myself, and Irene

Movie: Me, Myself, and Irene

Genre: Comedy

Welcome back for another round of Movie Monday!

This second posting of Movie Monday when it comes to Jim Carrey movies isn’t really quite like the ones he usually gets cast in.

Me, Myself, and Irene. It’s a comedy, for sure, but I also feel as if there may be partial psychological aspect to it as well. Of course, the psychological aspects adds onto the humor in more ways than expected.

In this movie, Charlie Baileygates (Carrey) is introduced as an 18 year old veteran working for the Rhode Island State Police trooper, who gets married to Layla. Of course, she cheats on him from beginning of the movie with their limo driver that drove them from their wedding, and gives birth to three children. To Charlie, it doesn’t bother him one bit because he doesn’t see what the problem is that the married couple that are both white has black kids. To him, that’s as normal as the sun being up during the day. And after confessing to Charlie that she feels as if their limo driver’s actually her soul mate, Layla leaves him and the kids to run away to live a life with the limo driver.

Years later, when Charlie’s kids are all grown up, at a BBQ party, his coworkers try to approach him in order to make him realize that his kids aren’t exactly his kids, which he continues to remain in denial about careless of what others try and point out for him – Namely the difference in their skin colors.

Having to have been abandoned even after having gone through the wedding and being abandoned to take care of the kids all by himself, he allows himself to get pushed around and abused by everyone else. And from having to have to allow himself to be pushed around, he doesn’t get any respect from anyone, and hasn’t for all the years he’s taken his kids as they have grown up into high school students. And exactly that which brought the case of being a bipolar for Charlie. The part of him when he doesn’t black out on himself is his usual passive self, and the other half of him comes out whenever Charlie doesn’t want to be mad or yell at anyone – At that side is the more official and the more of in control sort of a type and triggered when others begin to anger him and Charlie doesn’t want to do anything about it from being just a tad bit too passive and polite.

Once discovering that he’s a bipolar, Charlie gets assigned to take a woman, Irene, back to New York for a hit and run incident that had been created by her ex-boyfriend. During their drive to New York, Charlie and Irene finds themselves in tight spot as they come to realize that not only is Irene’s ex that has set her up to be a criminal that she’s been framed to be out to have her killed, the police are all in his pockets.

With knowing that Charlie has to prove Irene’s innocence, will he be able to fight against his other half that’s full of anger? Or will he lose complete control of himself if he’s to try and save Irene?

Or will he just look the other way and run to save his own skin?

Join Charlie in his adventures in his weird, crazy, and perhaps slightly messed up world.