My name is John Malkovich, and there is a woman named John Malkovich sitting across from me. She ordered the "John Malkovich" dish to the waiter. I bumped into someone and someone called me "John Malkovich". , Suddenly, the whole world is flooded with John Malkovich. How weird and scary this picture is.
In this film, John Malkovich represents everyone's ideal self. People will succeed in their careers in middle age, without family burdens, and without financial pressure. He listened to compliments under the spotlight. Craig, on the other hand, is the infinite amplification of ordinary people's own flaws, love is bound, career is blocked, and everywhere is hitting a wall. He is engaged in the profession of puppeteer who is about to decline, but he is obsessed with showing indecent pictures to children in the street because of his pursuit of art. People beat up, Craig can represent each of us to some extent, every ordinary person who is extremely dissatisfied with himself, frustrated and hesitated.
In the seven and one-half floors, because the floor is too short, every employee bows his head. In real life, why don’t people who are going 9 to 5 bow their heads to life. Therefore, the seven and one-half floors are a concrete manifestation of the resistance that hinders people from moving forward.
Here, Craig meets Maxine, who is both beautiful and intelligent. Maxine is more like an allegorical existence. She is the second perfect individual in the film and a symbol of temptation. It is the poisonous snake that lured Eve in the Garden of Eden, and it is also the venomous apple.
Before entering the body of John Malkovich, there is a long tunnel, symbolizing the womb that breeds life, and passing through the tunnel represents the new life. Therefore, this is also a story about new students. Traveling through the mother body, with curiosity and fear in his heart, he takes a glimpse of this vast world from a new human perspective.
A large number of subjective shots make people dizzy and create an extremely realistic atmosphere for watching movies.
A large number of subjective erotic shots can be regarded as a bold exploration of virtual reality in the future. Several times in the film, the camera was turned to the stage and to the TV. The recording mode of the play in the play adds to the sense of reality. The large-scale time span did not cause the plot to break, but increased the drama. Including Maxine and Lottie kissing in the grass, raising the children together, it is more like an endless cycle of dreams. At this time, the parasitic doom seems to be coming to this happy pair of gay children soon. , A subjective shot of the inside of a swimming pool (amniotic fluid) is more like the arrival of another new student.
Craig manipulated the puppet first, then John Malkovich. Manipulating puppets was originally just a profession, until he became a puppet, Craig used John Malkovich’s fame to finally put the puppet on the Taiga Hall and won the Emmy Award. The grotesque here forms a strong contrast with the previous article, giving people a spiritual shock. Indeed, with the resources of money, fame, and contacts, it is no longer so difficult to do a career.
Gradually, it was no longer John Markovic who relied on Craig to manipulate, but Craig became inseparable from John Markovic’s physical body. He knew that once he was separated from John Markovic’s body, He will have nothing, lose all his property, fame, and most importantly, Maxine's love. From this perspective, Craig is not a puppet who has no self-action ability to subordinate others to live. This is his sorrow. It is also a fear buried deep in the darkest place in every ordinary person's heart.
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