... would you be? Trick question. The last time I spoke of the paradoxical demonstration of "real lives" in ways artificial. Today I bring another movie to continue this theme of reality, or private or whatever you call it. I decided to comment "Being John Malkovich?" , directed by Spike Jonze . This film is from 1999, starred John Cusack , Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich and Catherine Keener . One producer was Michael Stipe (leader of REM) and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman was , responsible for films like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" .
Well, before I have to clarify that this movie is surreal and now with the title
can expect some content. I dare say that is "science fiction", because it raises the issue in a tension between natural and wonder : Characters dudan a second of what is happening, but then they accept as normal in the world. At times it becomes bizarre say, but if we intend to accept input from what they say as true, there will be no more complications than those just named them. This will clarify because I hardly ever touched hear things like "this movie is re fantastic" (ie fantasy) and I respond "Thank God is great, but I would be filming my life every day to fun ". Ideally, the films are innovative , shocking, to tell something we did not expect or could not imagine, because that is where the magic , an art film. 
Now, I dive in "Being John Malkovich." Jonze invited us to know the life of Craig Schwartz (Cusack), a puppet maker who works in the streets doing their shows, earning coins. Craig lives in a dark apartment with his wife, Lotte (Diaz), a life that exceeds monotony and frustration . One day, when the street did not give him more trouble, we decided to go for a notice which requested hands and nimble fingers ": just for him. Get administrative position in a company that was located in between two floors, to save space (they have to see the method to stop the elevator in the Floor 7 1/2...excelente). life seemed to be heading back to the monotony, until the work meets Maxine (Keener), a sexy and manipulative woman who begins to flirt with Craig. If he lacked any seasoning your life, that it was giving Maxine. And good, between the misaligned and workaholic and his wife Maxine maneater, Craig did not take long to Lotte trick.
to here, nothing very unusual. One day, looking for a role behind a file, Craig finds a small door. He opens it and starts walking in the dark a dark tunnel ... suddenly, is seeing through the eyes of a man . That man is nothing more and nothing less than the actor John Malkovich . He was inside Malkovich's head and makes you feel so much energy, enjoying every moment in John. But the effect wears out and Craig returned to his home outside of himself, as if possessed by a lysergic aluinación . Then
Maxine tells of his discovery, who is shocked and quickly
think mode exploit this sensory portal. He also learns the news is Lotte, who begins to haunt the actor's head whenever he slept with Maxine (get get to it and begins to seduce him as well.) To close an account, Malkovich, Craig and Lotte end Maxine lovers and everyone wants to spend time with her. The portal starts to add numbers, advertised as a unique experience where you can stop being yourself and wear the pants of John Malkovich. Pays off until the boss finds out about the shady business and goes to confess to a secret portal that has enabled Lester (boss and owner of the office) to stay alive from 200 years ago, because every time that his body was about to succumb, the door marked a new body / host to live. John Malkovich
learns of this website and it requires close . Craig ignored and managed to get one last time in the actor, making a total mental control . So does the passage in John Malkovich of a famous actor on a popular puppeteer. He is married to Maxine and her life seems to be the ideal. Peeeerooo ..... Odd? they did not see the end and I think they are not counted.
He had advised that it was not common the film, but even so it took me to convey the contents of a simple, because there is nothing simple here. I quickly turn to the uniqueness or what I want to highlight. Being John Malkovich, being a famous .... definitely "be another" . Spike Jonze uses the mechanism of reality as possible: live the life of another . In this case, uses fictional tricks, but basically we are inviting us to be others and I must say it looks like something beautiful. Likewise, the end remains the same, there is a price to pay and settle with the body or life. When he asks "Being John Malkovich want?" is talking about a sinister invitation, incitement the depersonalization, the anguish . But if we take the facts of the film, shows a subject who "live" when others are. Your life is worth nothing if they can not be at a time when the head of another ... is like a second chance in depression. I hope they shoot issues. The movie I give it a 3 and 1 / 2 Clare . I love John Malkovich, because it is the sex symbol least expected, apart from a great actor "If I say that this film Cameron Diaz works well, I believe? because it is so, it is wonderful, but not as poor as other times his performance. The rest of applause Jonze and Kaufman are for, making this a rare film, novel and entertaining . Fun, that hard eh? because it is getting into a pattern that can be your own trap , but they do very well, understood and given a breath of fresh air to oxidized film Yankee.
Trailer and see you next!
PD: cheap gossip: Spike Jonze is the ex-boyfriend the leader of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Karen O.
PD: Jonze also is director of music videos, including "It's oh so quiet" by Bjork, "100%" by Sonic Youth, "Cannonball" by The Breeders and-my favorite-"Y Control" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
