Nobody is Crazy

While the pacing meanders occasionally, this remains interesting, unformulaic filmmaking, told from an often neglected narrative perspective.

There aren’t many movies that can make time travel interesting. There are even fewer that are interested in intellectually stimulating the audience’s mind. Federico J. Arioni’s Nobody is Crazy does both and does so exceptionally well.

Nobody Is Crazy Film Review Critic: William Hemingway Posted on: 8 Apr 2022 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Time travel is tricky stuff. It twists your melon – man; especially when you're trying to deal with actual quantum physics and not just that cutesy Grandfather paradox/alternate timeline junk that they sell you in films and on TV. As Nobody (Arioni) in Federico J Arioni's film Nobody Is Crazy/Nadie Esta Loco is fond of quoting from Ecclesiastes: “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.” And this, believe it or not, actually helps make things a lot easier to understand. Nobody's (and Ecclesiastes') point is that nothing can be changed. Through past, present and future, all that has been, is, or will ever be is already set, with no heroic time-traveller or fancy chronometric shenanigans being able to alter that. It's probably best to keep that in mind as you delve into the plot of Nobody Is Crazy and the life of its main character Rafael. Rafael (Gutierrez) is a lonely 16 year old boy living in Neuquen, Argentina. He has OCD which keeps his systems rigid and his social circle non-existent. His mother is at her wit's end trying to get him to go to school and engage with other children his age, which has led her to threaten him with being sent to military school. Rafael's psychologist, the latest in a long line, can't se…

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