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Being John Malkovich (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Contributor | John Malkovich, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 53 minutes |
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Product Description
Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze (Adaptation) and writer Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz (There's Something About Mary) but that's not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack (Say Anything), a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener (Capote), non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we'll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.53 Ounces
- Item model number : CRRN2142BR
- Director : Spike Jonze
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 53 minutes
- Release date : May 15, 2012
- Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B007A4Y1Q8
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,574 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #402 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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Dead-end puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is mired in a futile marriage to pet-obsessed wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). A clerk for LesterCorp, he toils on the low-ceilinged 7½ floor. Craig gets the hots for disinterested coworker Maxine Lund (Catherine Keener). He finds a door behind a cabinet, and into it - and into the mind of legendary actor John Malkovich - he crawls. For 15 minutes per session, Craig sees the world through Malkovich’s eyes. He shares the portal with Maxine, and they monetize the Malkovich experience like a $200 carnival ride.
Malkovich himself is stunning in his own repurposing, and director Spike Jonze has never been more dialed in. Yet in its wildly unshackled concept and brilliant execution, “Being John Malkovich” is foremost a master class in writing, and only the great Charlie Kaufman is to blame. This is the film you show aspiring scribes as screenwriting at its most aspirational. – (Was this review of use? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful.") - WATCHED IT? THEN WATCHLIST: "Stadium Anthems," "The Big Lebowski."
It certainly isn't straight-forward, or easy to access, or as superficially funny as traditional comedies. But, it is unique, and layered, and perfectly executed IMHO.
It made me lulz.
It's kind of like one of the movie adapts of Alice in Wonderland. Not the book, mind you, but like the movie adapts...
The movie follows the story of a very strange, lonely, unhappy guy (Cusack) who, do to his wife's insistence, gets a job in a filing company. The office itself is crazy and his co-workers/boss are just as strange.
He soon wants to cheat on his wife with a very snobby, hot woman that works on the same floor.
Shortly after his attempts with her, he finds a portal to the mind of John Malkovich behind a filing cabinet in his office. Then just random, hilarity follows.
I did not fully understand the ending, and it was a bit disturbing, but still, a hilarious film.
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9/10
PS. My ex-girlfriend did not enjoy the film.
Having read the negative reviews it seems they fall into two categories "difficulty in understanding a plot", and "unlikeable characters". Indeed none of the characters are your typical hollywood heros, but that's because this isn't a typical hollywood film. The characters have depth in multiple dimensions of human nature, and so they are not clearly definable as good or bad, as most people are used to in hollywood.
As for plot, again it doesn't follow a straightforward hollywood plot line, the narrative, point and symbology is complex and intricate.
The philosophical points being made are probably far too deep and confusing for the average person of our idiocracy. Concepts such as shared consciousness, the notion of self, life after death, self direction, free will, etc.
Not sure how on earth someone came up with this, fair play to Malco for doing this too! Must watch at least once.
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