Kaufman did not release any new works after directing his debut film "New York Synonyms" in 2008. He did not co-direct a stop-motion animation "Disorder" until 2015 with another director. Not keen. This "Disorder" is also from his handwriting, and still has unexpected imagination. The biggest highlight is nothing more than the use of stop-motion animation to present, the characters' movements are relatively slow, revealing a weird and surreal look and feel. I don't know if this is due to cost constraints, but this animation method did not bring too many breakthroughs to the theme. The film follows author Michael Stone who arrives in Cincinnati to promote his success book and prepare to give a motivational speech at a convention. However, the married man met Lisa, a stubborn woman in a hotel, and the two had a spark that led to an extramarital affair.
The characters in the play are all puppets wearing masks. After a closer look, except for the male and female protagonists, the facial expressions of everyone are the same, and there is a scene where the male protagonist drops his entire face on the ground in a nightmare, causing the male protagonist to drop his entire face on the ground. The voice of the protagonist is about to come out. In addition, the director used the same male actor to dub all the characters (except the male and female protagonists), deliberately creating a sense of confusion. In fact, this kind of design of one thousand people and one voice is not too amazing, because as early as 1999, Kaufman's own famous work "Puppet Life" had a similar expression.
This Abnormality is the most accessible exception to Kaufman's many obscure works. This script is too bland, describing an existential dilemma caused by a midlife crisis. The protagonist is a middle-aged man suffering from "world misery" or some kind of disease. He projects his anxiety on the people around him, but from Don't reflect on the source of your problems. From Lisa, the heroine who changed her voice at the end, it can be seen that the hero is probably just making excuses to get rid of the mid-life crisis. The loneliness and existential dilemma are just a cover-up, but in essence, arrogance and arrogance are at work. This overly narcissistic mentality can no longer be hidden in the middle of the film, which is really uncomfortable.
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