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Being John Malkovich (1999)
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While too many movies suffer the fate of creative bankruptcy, Being John Malkovich is a refreshing study in contrast, so bracingly original that you'll want to send director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman a thank-you note for restoring your faith in the enchantment of film. Even if it ultimately serves little purpose beyond the thrill of comedic invention, this demented romance is gloriously entertaining, spilling over with ideas that tickle the brain and even touch the heart. That's to be expected in a movie that dares to ponder the existential dilemma of a forlorn puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers a...
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One of those movies that comes along once in a long while and tests everything you think you know about how films are made, what they can be about and what the limitations of cinema and life are.
See this before you see 'Adaptation' and it will make a lot more sense...maybe.
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| Being John Malkovich Movie Review by Wes (3/5/2007) |
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Brilliant in every aspect of the word. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman are a perfect match. This film is funny, sad, exciting, horrifying, and everything in between. It's brilliant because it doesn't have any boundries. Anything can happen, and for the most part, does.
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| Being John Malkovich Movie Review by Valerie (12/15/2006) |
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Could be easily considered the weirdest movie ever, because if there's something this movie is, it's weird.
The very concept is wildly original and it came from the mind of the great Charlie Kaufman, who would later write Adaptation. and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Here's the basic concept, go to the 7th and a...
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