I got to tell ya, well hold on. First of all I made note of a ‘theme week’ last week or two weeks or whatever ago. That fell through; there are still a ton of movies I want to see before I start limiting my selections. This is after-all, my blog. So where was I? Oh yeah, so I got to tell you this movie blew my miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind. KA-BLAM!
Check it out: Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceiling office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever Malkovich is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine starts selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside Malkovich. Malkovich finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer.
Yeah, me too.
That’s as much of the plot as I could fit into a paragraph form. The movie is from writer Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, New York—THOSE type of movies) and director Spike Jonze (He’s that guy doing Where the Wild Things Are). It’s filled with laughs if you’re into dark humor and bizarre plots. One of those movies that will punch you in the brain than spit in your eye than give you big hugs…than head-butt you.
Downsizing.
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