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Bizzarly Hilarious
"Being John Malkovich" most likely would fall into the catagory of "cinema of the absurd." I wasn't expecting this movie to be the sidesplitingly funny picture as it turned out to be. The main theme, of course, is the desire to "puppet" and manipulate other people, but what really made this movie was the little gags in between. Cusack scoffs at a 60 foot Emily Dickenson puppet as an attention seeking gimmick. The boss's revelation that he is 100 plus years old because of "carrot juice." The worker required video explaining the "Legend of the 7 1/2 Floor." People being enlightened by the trivial acts of Malkovich taking a shower or hailing a taxi. And those wonderful shots of people exiting Malkovich's head and plopping out of the sky onto, of all places, the New Jersey Turnpike. Cameron Diaz and John Cusack, two attractive and well known players, are transformed into ugly hags (I didn't know that Cusack played in the movie until after I saw it). That keeps the viewers attention to the characters and away from the actors playing them. The film slows down just a tad towards the end, but overall, its just a funny funny movie.

Why Deranged Writers Should be Supervised
This movie is a perfect example of how you shouldn't take drugs before writing scripts. The first part was amusing but bizarre; the second half ruined the first half by introducing sexual perversion. If you are going to take drugs and write scripts, please use the SAME drug and don't mix them randomly.

This could have been a great movie, and there are some good spots, but essentially it's a waste of time. Get something better, like Amazon Women from Mars.

Quite possibly the strangest film ever made
How Being John Malkovitch was ever made I'll never understand. It is so bizarre, different, clever and out-there that no production company should have ever approved it. Yet they did, and for that I am ever so grateful.

Just the story synopsis sounds so crazy. A puppeteer working on the 7 1/2 floor (originally built for midgets) finds a portal leading to the head of real life actor John Malkovitch, allowing annoying entering it to be Malkovitch for 15 minutes before being spit out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Wow. And the movie is so much more weird then that. The first time I saw it, my mouth was wide open in shock. How did this movie get made? It's so crazy it's wonderful.

With such a the head-trip of a story, it's easy to skip over the wonderful performances by the cast. John Cusack and Cameron Diaz look and act positively convincing as a poor, ugly and strange couple in New York. Catherine Keener is superb as a power-hungry, greedy woman who Cusack and Diaz both fall for, and of course Malkovitch as himself is both strange and intoxicating. Is it how he really acts? You never really know. And that's part of the charm of this wonderful film. The line of reality and fiction at times becomes fuzzy. A characteristic that writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze play even more with in their follow-up Adaptation.

Of course, all this weirdness means this film isn't for everyone. Some will scoff at it's "too cleverness" or walk out thoroughly confused. But for those who love the theater of the absurd, this will be pure paradise. One of the most unique and memorable films to come out under the Hollywood radar in a long time. This gets my high recommendation.

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