The most confusing biopic of the century I’m Not There is now out in a 2-disc DVD Collector’s Edition, and I bet you’ll only buy it because you’d want everybody to think you’re cool. But hey go and buy it anyway, it’s a great film.

The Bob Dylan musical biopic is directed by Todd Haynes, who made the movie quite interesting than expected. I knew it was something different just by finding out that Cate Blanchett will star as Jude, Dylan’s showiest persona which the whole world is most familiar of. Other stars filling the shoes of the rock legend are Christian Bale; Heath Ledger who played a more mature persona of Bob as father and a husband; Richard Gere, who became the older Dylan who lived in a ton full of circus freaks and other actors you won’t mind not knowing.

The DVD includes minimal commentaries and several unreleased trailers. The one thing memorable was the tribute to Heath Ledger at the end, who of course, sleeping-pilled his way to death. Another cool feature of the DVD is the “Dylanography” which explains Hayne’s treatment to Bob Dylan as an artist, musician and most importantly as a foot face freak (not true). Disc 1 is mainly dedicated to music, and Dylan fans will be happy as long as they figure out the movie.

I won’t try and artfully explain the flick, because it’s not the type of alternative movie that has a sole ending or a singular purpose. It is so damn confusing I almost started to like calculus and news on crops. The six separate sections in the movie are so uniquely different, it has a boatload of surrealism which almost makes it difficult what’s real or what isn’t. Some of the personalities portrayed are don’t associate Dylan with music, which makes it errrm, not so cool. I wouldn’t care about Bob Dylan at all if it wasn’t for his music and his son Jakob Dylan. But nevertheless, the movie is one artistic mind-boggler. That’s the thing about Todd Haynes, he always makes sure his audiences are baffled like buffoons after watching his movie.