This is a stop-motion animated feature film written and directed by the genius screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. There are dozens of characters in this film, but only three voices, so everyone's voice is the same, except for the heroine. To make such a strange cartoon in such a strange way, only Charlie Kaufman would do it.
Charlie Kaufman's films have always been full of rich interpretation space, thinking is better than viewing. This article is my understanding of the film. If you are easily influenced by the opinions of others, it is recommended to read this article after watching the film.
Like Kaufman's previous films, the story of this film progresses slowly in the mediocre daily life, and takes a bizarre turn in the middle and back sections, and the protagonist falls into an extremely absurd situation. But different from the previous films, the meaning of this film is relatively simple and not difficult to understand at all, especially the young and middle-aged men who often travel on business and have a successful career will definitely feel the same after watching this film.
Like everyone else, the protagonist works hard, gets married, has children, and when his career is successful, he finds himself kidnapped by the value orientation of this society, and his true self becomes blurred. The protagonist sees other people wearing masks, but in fact others see him too. The world has become a world of one face, one voice, of which we are all.
A one-night stand on a business trip broke the shackles of this mask, and the unbeautiful female partner Lisa made a different voice. Her inferiority and shyness stimulated and triggered the most simple throbbing of the protagonist. From meeting to chatting and kissing, the protagonist released the id in a state of complete relaxation. Then, they were clichéd, and the release process was over. In the early morning of the next day, they chatted about family affairs routinely, so Lisa's voice It slowly disappeared and became the voice of the protagonist. In the subsequent speech, the protagonist's id tried to "usurp" the character's first consciousness, but the sneer of the audience stopped this behavior. Returning home with a sense of frustration, his wife and children, relatives and friends who he did not know, held a welcome ceremony for him at home. Everyone had a face and a voice. His life went from a beautiful disorder to a terrible normal, the id disappeared and the self recovered.
——The heroine is called Lisa, and the title of the film is Anomalisa, which is derived from the word Anomalies (disorder), which means the goddess who fell from the sky in Japanese. So the moral of the film is in the title. This is almost one of the most straightforward Charlie Kaufman films.
In fact, taking a step back and thinking, the good impression of Lisa is also the product of the protagonist's frustrated emotional projection, because he failed to make an appointment with his ex before seeing Lisa, and then it was the power of the world that led him to get acquainted by accident. Lisa. So in the final analysis, this beautiful encounter is just a wave of the protagonist's usual behavior. Maybe there is a man and a woman in the next room doing this. It's called aberration, but it's always been "normal".
Maybe you will say that this story has nothing to do with me. I’m still working hard to move bricks. It’s impossible to write a book and give a speech like the protagonist. Right, why? There are three reasons:
1. Even in the film, only the protagonist has this trouble. The ex-girlfriend leaves angrily after learning that he asked her out to have sex; Lisa is more cheerful and happier in the car on the way home with her bestie (as the protagonist unconsciously encourages and praised her). None of them showed a depressive side, and depression only belongs to the protagonist;
2. Who is the protagonist? Customer service research experts. The protagonists of Kaufman's films are often middle-aged men with a high degree of education, who are engaged in intellectual work, such as the screenwriter played by Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation" and Philip Seymour in "New York Synonyms". ·The theater director played by Hoffman, the star of the film, like them, always has another self screaming in the body. My understanding is that this kind of trouble occurs only after culture and thinking reach a certain level, and ordinary toilers don't have to worry about this problem. So, if you are angry, you are the hardworking public, and Lao Tzu is a white-collar, gold-collar and diamond-collar. I just want to say about this -
3. For a country where even the important officials of the imperial court are still talking about urbanization, most of us are working people, a species between farmers and citizens. We can't suffer the kind of trouble that the protagonist in the film has, because before that kind of trouble comes, the house, car, wife, child, medical education, food, have already trapped us.
Therefore, neither you nor I will have the same troubles as the protagonist of this film. We don't have the time or the mood. Watching this film, I just want to think about the momentary happiness it brings.
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