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Being John Malkovich Customer Reviews (7 - 9 of 67 Reviews)

THIS MOVIE REALLY TRIPPED ME OUT (AWESOME)
If someone made a movie about a lame puppeteer, with a boring life, a wife thats as bored as he is, a structurally mismade office building, a sexy but somewhat evil co worker, a backwards talking boss, a chimpanzee with a traumatic youth, and a PORTAL INTO JOHN MALKOVICHS BRAIN, would you see it?

Well you should, cuz there is. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH is one of the craziest movies ever made, and what's really weird about this movie is that in the end... it all makes perfect sense.

This one will flip your wig kids, if you are into movies that make you trip without using drugs... this one is for you. The writers follow up film ADAPTATION is also very awesome.

read this guys reveiw below mine if you've SEEN the movie, I'm sitting at work DYING!

Can't overcome its defects
Too many inside jokes, too much Hollywood backslapping. Movies about movie stars, books about authors and songs about rock and roll bands are just too onanistic. I'm giving it three stars only because of John Cusack, one of my favorite actors.

Also, the absurdist mode doesn't work well for feature-length movies. Once the initial interest in the absurdity has worn off, there's really not much to go on. That's why movies that do use the absurdist mode generally are divided into short segments, such as "Monty Python's Holy Grail" or "History of the World Part I."


Metaphor for Our Age
Spike Jonze has directed a film about people who want to get lost inside a portal of a celebrity John Malkovich and as such has made a film that is an allegory of our age: a society of tormented souls, who loathing their perceived mundane existence, seek transcendence by living vicariously through a celebrity. In our tabloid-soaked culture where we want our celebs dished out to us for our feasting, we now take our worship a step further: live inside and takeover a celebrity; get inside his brain and try to render our sense of being invisible by being John Malkovich.

Great idea but how does the film work in terms of pacing, plotline, and coherence? Amazingly, the narrative is tight and follows easily enough. The satire is always two steps ahead of us. There are too many laugh-outloud surprises in here to mention. But beneath the satire is a brooding, tormented meditation on a society that, without the razzle-dazzle of celebrity, is overcome by a sense of worthlessness and ennui.

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