Sneak Peek Movie Review: The Tracey Fragments Starring Ellen Page

You know those movies you come across that make absolutely no sense as you first begin to watch them? You continue watching though because you think that eventually you will 'get it'... yet the more and more it goes on you realize you're not getting it? Yet, you stay glued to the tube hoping for that one scene that will pull it all together and bring a solution to the maze?

The Tracey Fragments plays out just like that. Literately, the movie starts backward, than throws you to the middle, to the beginning, back to the middle, and up down, all around.

To better put it...

Imagine a movie, your favorite movie even... and some weird and crazy editor comes along, takes a pair of scissors, and cuts your movie up into pieces consisting 40 or 50 scenes. Then he just glues those scenes back together, only in any order he feels like it. The movie is still a movie, only you have to figure out what pieces go where. If you are good, you will know what goes where. However if you sneeze during the movie, you just might miss that one thing you needed in order to make sense of what the film actually is.

The Tracey Fragments stars Ellen Page. To be honest, her name associated with this film is the only reason I rented it. I loved Ellen Page in Juno, and in Hard Candy, so the moment I stumbled across a movie with her name in it, I scooped it up without hesitation.

I had no idea that I would be taken on such a strange, choppy ride of stupid.

Tracey is basically a 15 year old teen who apparently lost her brother when she hypnotized him and turned him into a dog.

Yeah some plot right? I figured though with a plot like this Ellen Page would somehow be able to work it. Somehow turn this stupid plot into something fun, dark, twisted and interesting.

Unfortunately this wasn't the case. The Tracey Fragments are so chopped up that it really gets irritating by the time the flick is half over. The movie plays out cut up into sections. Literately you will be watching your screen, and the film will show 4 boxes on your television set, all playing different parts to the movie.

One box for instance may focus on Tracey's face, another box on her hand, and another on her shoe...and another her brother barking like a dog. In all honesty it's cool and interesting at first, but then it gets drawn out, and tiresome because you're not sure what frigging box to focus on.

At any rate though, The Tracey Fragments does manage to pull together remnants of some sort of plot, only the plot is bizarre, with that bizarre ending that you sort of see coming before it happens. You know what I mean... you say to yourself just 1 second before the movie ends; 'tell me this is not the ending'... because you are left unsatisfied, annoyed, and irritated that you just sat through an hour of watching boxes, and scrambled plots be thrown together, and then they have the nerve to hit you with such a stupid ending. Possibly the ending has some sort of deep seated meaning, but in all honesty... it's not even worth trying to figure out.

The Tracey Fragments is a skip in my opinion. However if you are stoned, and want to temporarily get even 'more' dazed and confused, go ahead and rent this trippy weird movie.