If the director Spike Jones has perfect control of the rhythm of the movie, then the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman must have given it magic. He made me watch the full movie addictively, and it would be exciting and chaotic when I think back to the plot.
Absurd, weird, bizarre... It is difficult for me to come up with suitable words to describe this movie, and I even doubt whether the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has a very human multi-personality.
He once said: "I like to live in complexity. When you complicate things, they will be more interesting." So he took "telling a man fell in love with a woman, and she is not his wife." A movie script that creates a weird movie like "Becoming John Malkovich".
Because of this, I remembered the name Charlie Kaufman, and also included his other "Warm and Inner Light".
He constructed a ridiculous, exaggerated and bizarre world, allowing movie viewers to reflect on the surreal style.
Absurd and bizarre storyline
The hero of the film, Gore (played by John Cusack in "Fatal ID") is a puppet artist who is good at manipulating puppets on stage. Because of work and life pressure, he had to give up the job of performing puppet shows and enter a company to engage in document management.
The weird thing is that this company is located on the seventh and a half floors of the office building, between the seventh and eighth floors of the building. It takes an elevator to reach this floor. You must pry open the elevator door with an iron rod to enter this floor. Employees must walk hunched over.
In an accidental job, Gore stumbled upon a door behind the company's filing cabinet. Driven by curiosity, Gore entered this door. As soon as Gore entered the door, he was immediately sucked into it, and flew across time and space into the brain of the famous actor John Malkovich.
He found that he could now control John Malkovich's gaze at will, and spied all of John Malkovich's privacy. After fifteen minutes, it will automatically be bounced back to reality.
Gore’s discovery made him very excited, so he found a female colleague Maxine from the company and used this door to make money together. It costs 200 yuan for everyone to enter this door to spy on "John Malkovich".
Afterwards, Gore’s wife Lott also fell in love with this secret door. In the pleasure of voyeurism, she found out that she was gay, fell in love with Maxine, and even wanted to be transgender...
This is the plot about an hour before the movie. The puppet theater, the seven-and-a-half-story office, the secret road, the voyeur... In this hour of watching, all the curiosity psychology is satisfied. I have to say that the brain is big enough and the ideas are real. many!
Human desire to peep into privacy
This film raises a lot of questions about human nature, and the director also tries to reveal the darkness and weakness of people's hearts through absurd and funny plots.
The desire of human beings to peep into privacy is exactly the aspect exposed in this movie, and it is also the main clue to the development of the movie's plot.
The protagonist, Gore, discovered the secret road, and the first time he peeped at John Markovich’s life was fear and excitement. He took this bizarre experience as his path to wealth.
And his wife entered the secret path and saw John Malkovich who was taking a bath in the bathroom. The desire and excitement of voyeurism brought the film to the point. The pleasure of prying into other people’s lives from others’ eyes made her addicted. , So she can't stop.
As the great Hitchcock said in the movie "Rear Window", peeking is a psychological instinct that everyone has. Although peeping is essentially judged as an immoral behavior, the guilt it brings is far less than murder and rape. Therefore, people are so passionate and obsessed, even addicted.
In the city where we live, every private space is closed, and this kind of closure can stimulate people’s voyeuristic psychology. People are eager to spy on the lives and habits of others when they are alone. This is why there are so many live video broadcasts. There are also reasons why so many people watch when eating and sleeping.
Of course, more reasons stem from the inferiority of people's hearts, because of inferiority, they are eager to peep into the privacy of others. In the film, a customer said: I am fat, I am very unhappy... So when he learned that he could spy on "John Malkovich", he cried excitedly.
In essence, it is the lust and conjecture of one person becoming another.
Only if you hide in a mask can you be free
The repeated appearance of puppets in the film uses the puppets in the puppet show to echo that people have been manipulated by the material and desires of life, and they are no different from puppets.
The act of being manipulated is not considered the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is the thought and soul being manipulated. The most innocent in the movie is John Malkovich, who was peeped from the beginning, and then he was completely manipulated by Gore's consciousness. , We can imagine the fear that emanated from his heart.
In the film, after entering the brain of John Malkovich, they become unlike themselves. They put on a shell to hide themselves and begin to expose the "freedom" of human nature, which is a gloomy rebellion in their hearts.
Gore used the body of John Markovic to fulfill his long-cherished wish, from the timidity at the beginning to the arrogance later.
His wife Lott satisfies the desire and love for the same sex through John Markovic's behavior. She can't extricate herself from the pleasure of searching and voyeurizing again and again.
When John Malkovich himself entered his brain through the secret path, he saw a distorted world, himself under countless masks: fetishism, homosexuality, women's fetishism and so on.
Therefore, in the director's view, human beings who live in appearance are not free. They have freedom of action, but their thoughts are imprisoned. This imprisoned desire also slowly nourishes the darkness and evil in the human heart.
Charlie Kaufman once said: "I want to show the real relationship between people, the kind of things I want to see in the movie, it has something to do with my life, not an inaccessible fairy tale. ."
As the worst screenwriter in Hollywood, this movie should be dubbed "Kaufman's work" rather than the director's work.
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