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Being John Malkovich (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Contributor	John Malkovich, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 53 minutes

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Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze (Adaptation) and writer Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz (There's Something About Mary) but that's not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack (Say Anything), a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener (Capote), non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we'll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.36 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ CRRN2142BR
Director ‏ : ‎ Spike Jonze
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 53 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ John Malkovich, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007A4Y1Q8
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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bluenail

One of my all time favorites

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

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Just can't stop laughing when they get ejected out of John Malkovich's mind. New Jersy Turnpike really?Funny!

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Andalusian Dog

Who is pulling my strings?

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2009

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While I have seen and enjoyed this film many times I figured with Where the Wild Things Are about to come out I'd give this film a re-look-see and write a proper review for it. BJM is on it's surface satirical take on modern famous types, unknown creative types, and what it is that makes those at both ends of the spectrum tick. Now while the true creative type from any discipline is compelled by unknown forces there are also those amongst them that are, shall we say, compelled by less pure forces. Those being fame and money. Still, even the pure artist needs recognition of some sort. After all, art is just another form of communication. Without anyone to communicate with an artist can go ever inwards and mad, I suspect, if one is not understood by others on some level. Craig Schwartz, is a pure artist who is at the start of the film misunderstood and not communicating, no matter how hard he tries, to those around him. As events unfold his wife leaves him and he is eventually thrust into the head of real life actor John Malkovich. This is where the film departs from what is typical in mainstream movies. Ambiguity, symbolism, and exploration of existential concepts is not what most people go to the films to enjoy decoding, thinking about, or passively watching. Soon sexuality and the male and female body types we are born into are questioned and subsequently broken down. Also challenged is talent, fame and the notion that recognition comes from good art or just any established face in the public eye with some money to spend to explore any whim. Finally the film brings into question our very lives and if in fact we are in control of anything, or if some unseen force controls us. Craig Schwartz is a puppeteer who in fact winds up controlling John Malkovich and using his fame and money to further his personal self indulgent need to be a puppeteer is a never ending tunnel of mirrors like the very universe itself, where particles and matter are seemingly infinite outwards and inwards. This same topic is explored in other films written by Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York being the first that comes to mind with the never ending warehouses and smaller and smaller paintings.

In ending we see a new life born, unaware that it is controlled by hidden forces. Is this each and every one of our experiences? This is food for thought in BJM. The film never fully explains itself and that is why the film is so great. For if everything were explained and summed up then there would be no reason to re-watch the film again and agin, seeing it fresh each time it's explored down the road.

The inclusion of animals and higher primates in the film is symbolic. I suspect it alludes to our evolution, base animal nature and how we so often deny that we are in fact just another animal on this planet, albeit a creative one, apart but the same from all other creatures.

The 1/2 floor represents our subconscious, and also animal side. Much is explored and hashed out in the 1/2 floor of that building. things go in and things go out. Personalities and desires, thoughts, hopes, dreams. The characters want to go back to the portal that is in there. The portal to ones true self.

Comedy, a trait that most likely developed as a result of our higher brain functions, is explored as well. Comedy in this film is approached as absurdity. Existence is a bit absurd and this film takes it head on. Comedy probably developed as a buffer from the complex human brain running itself mad with endless thoughts about the nature of existence. These thoughts are explored and bubble up and out of the subconscious to the surface.

This film is a masterwork by the writer and director. It will be remembered long after the drivel of the day is long forgotten. This is one of the great films of our times.

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love this movie

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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one of my favorite movies, watched it again for the dozenth time.

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dlumh

Why did it end this way…

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

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I would venture to say Cameron Diaz has never worked harder than she did in this.

However, the whole end concept was just…Eh.

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David Cunningham

Great Movie

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024

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What a classic

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Rocky Wu

A tale that complements "I think therefore I am"

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022

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Descartes argues that the truth of our physical existence is only validated by our conscious mind -- without the ability to think, our bodies are no different than a stump of wood, or a computer, for better or for worse. Being John Malkovich provides a fascinating perspective from the flip side, that no matter how rarified our conscious mind seems or how much agency it appears to possess, it is ultimately gifted this position thanks to the physical laws in this universe. For if we were put inside the universe Malkovich lives in, where it is physically possible to make all humans but newborns vessels of a host mind--puppets controlled by hosts' mental strings--then free will is but an illusion, and morality, as we saw shone and lost in Craig and Lotte before they opened the proverbial can of worm, becomes baseless, gone and reduced to the whim of the original "gods". In this sense, if in this reality we are our own boss (hopefully), then perhaps consciousness and physical existence are not just causal like Descartes proposed, but more symbiotic than we previously believed, supporting the very fabric that weaves the reality that we live in.

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Collin O'Donnell

Jonze's First and Best

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2014

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It's unjust to review this film after only one viewing, but here we go anyway. Being John Malkovich, the world's first glimpse at Charlie Kaufman's brilliant and twisted mind, is an incredibly original and confident debut. If a lesser writer were to tackle the same exact premise of this film, the results would probably be disastrous and nonsensical. The triumph of the film is mostly due to Kaufman's belief and dedication to his off-the-wall material. He handles big philosophical ideas through elements of humor, fantasy, and escapism, a wonderful clash of styles. Chock full of symbolism, most of it dealing with manipulation, lack of identity, and repression, Being John Malkovich is one of those films a hip professor would show their students in a philosophy/film course 101 and murder it through dissection. Spike Jonze also made an auspicious feature length debut with this film. Whereas Kaufman is most creative on the page, Jonze's field of comfort is the screen, and he proves that with his unique camerawork and strong visual eye. His brilliance shines through in the directing of the puppeteering scenes and most prominently, the sequence in which Lotte and Maxine enter into and travel through Malkovich's subconscious. And the acting, my god! John Cusack is hilarious and pathetic as a very David Foster Wallace-esque character. Cameron Diaz is surprisingly great as Cusack's animal-loving and possibly transsexual wife. Catherine Keener's screen presence is enormous as the seductive and bazaar Maxine. And shining with his name in the title, John Malkovich gives a stunning performance in probably one of the strangest roles an actor can take in his career. He channels a pitiful puppeteer channeling Malkovich with eery exactitude. Orson Bean is also wonderful as a 105 year-old bodysnatcher and Charlie Sheen is great at being Charlie Sheen. The Coen Brothers' chief film composer, Carter Burwell, offers up a great classical piano score that perfectly suits the haunting nature of the film. Being John Malkovich is full of surprises. Not gimmicky M. Night Shyamalan twists, but meaningful and strange surprises that add layers of depth to an already deep story. It's all in a day's work for Charlie Kaufman, and the cast and crew who worked on the film couldn't have been any better. Bravo!

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Claude Couillard

fast serviceto play

Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2023

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Doktor von Pain

Eine herrlich schräge Komödie, die sich das Anderssein traut

Reviewed in Germany on November 12, 2022

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Es gibt Filme, die sind einfach anders als die anderen - und das im absolut positiven Sinne. Zu diesen gehört Being John Malkovich von Regisseur Spike Jonze und Drehbuchautor Charlie Kaufman aus dem Jahr 1999, für beide war es das Spielfilm-Debüt. Es geht um den erfolglosen Puppenspieler Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), der mit Lotte (Cameron Diaz) verheiratet ist, die sich in der gemeinsamen Wohnung um allerlei Tiere kümmert. Da es mit der Karriere als Puppenspieler nichts wird, nimmt Craig auf Drängen seiner Frau einen Bürojob in Manhattan an. Die Firma hat ihre Räume im siebeneinhalbten Stock, in dem die Decke gerade einmal gut eineinhalb Meter hoch ist, weswegen alle gebückt gehen müssen. Bei der Arbeit lernt Craig seine Kollegin Maxine (Catherine Keener) kennen, von der er ganz hingerissen ist, umgekehrt ist das aber nicht der Fall. Eines Tages entdeckt Craig hinter einem Schrank in seinem Büro eine seltsame Tür, hinter der sich ein langer Tunnel befindet. Wer diesen durchquert, landet auf unerklärtliche Weise für kurze Zeit im Bewusstsein des Schauspielers John Malkovich (als er selbst). Bald darauf machen Craig und Maxine daraus ein Geschäftsmodell, auch Lotte probiert es aus. Ihr gefällt es aber ein bisschen zu gut, John Malkovich zu sein, mit dem Maxine noch dazu ein Techtelmechtel anfängt. Craig hingegen gelingt es mit der Zeit, nicht nur als Besucher in Malkovichs Verstand zu sein, sondern ihn sogar zu kontrollieren - allerdings hat Craigs Boss Dr. Lester (Orson Bean) seine ganz eigenen Pläne mit John Malkovich.

Das klingt jetzt vielleicht mehr als ein bisschen wirr, aber die Story funktioniert tatsächlich. Being John Malkovich ist eine wunderbar schräge Komödie voll mit originellen Ideen und gut geschriebenen, herrlich schrulligen Figuren. Schon allein die Idee, John Malkovich sich selbst spielen zu lassen, der aber von einer anderen Person kontrolliert wird, ist grandios. Regie, Drehbuch und schauspielerische Leistungen sind allesamt auf Top-Niveau. Wäre das auch nur bei einem der Punkte nicht der Fall gewesen, hätte Being John Malkovich wahrscheinlich nicht funktioniert. Doch zum Glück tut er das. Weil diese Komödie so anders ist, wird sie sicherlich nicht jedem gefallen. Ich aber liebe diesen Film, ich sehe ihn mir immer wieder gerne an und kann ihn nur wärmstens empfehlen. Dafür gibt's auch volle fünf Sterne.

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SLIM

pas accessible à tous

Reviewed in France on March 8, 2023

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pour ceux qui aiment les curiosités.ofni!!? objet filmique non identifiable !?? mais quel originalité !!

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FRANK

GENIAL!!!

Reviewed in Spain on September 5, 2020

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EXCELENTE VENDEDOR, TODO PERFECTO, Y ADEMÁS ÉSTA EDICIÓN UK, ESTÁ EN CASTELLANO.

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Malkovich

Reviewed in Mexico on June 24, 2017

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Qué buena película, no la encontraba en ninguna parte; excelente precio y el servicio de primera como siempre, 100% recomendable.

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