Because this book is mentioned in the professional reading books that I want to learn, I looked for it. Just posting some humble opinions. Because it is a pull film, it is more for myself to see, and there is a more comprehensive plot overview. (lots of spoilers)
"We scramble to enter a person's body only to find a little love." - Inscription
From the beginning of the film, we can intuitively see the unhappy life of the hero Krieger. His wife is an animal caregiver with a family of orangutans, dogs, parrots and other animals. She is familiar with their habits and even understands their mental state. And Krieger is a puppeteer, and such art-related professions are actually unpopular until now. So when he was performing on the street, because he mixed sex-related topics in his performance, the father of the girl who was watching his performance on the roadside punched him. But when his wife Lottie saw him, what she said was "beaten again". These words can reveal how difficult Krieger was on his artistic path. After agreeing to his wife, he also went to apply for a clerk on the "seventh and a half" floor of a building to make a living. Because of the flexible fingers, the job application was successful on the spot. (15min)
After that, he fell in love with Maxine at first sight in the office on this floor. Maxine is a smart woman. The two went to a bar together at night because they guessed the woman's name correctly. After returning home, Krieger stayed in his studio all night, and he created a new story, a new identity from himself and Maxine, and their exchanges in the bar tonight, to Here comes a new feeling. But on the other hand, Machin knew very clearly that he didn't like Krieger, a married man, and he was just a "children's doll" that sneered at what he called "puppets". That's when Krieger found himself in a dog-hole-sized entrance in his office in an accidental accidental loss of documents. He tried to get in, and then he entered John Malkovich's body, feeling that he was going everything that happens. Fifteen minutes later, he fell near the New Jersey Tollbooth. (30min)
After that, he told Maxine about it, and Maxine immediately recognized that this might be a business opportunity, so he said that $200 could be exchanged for a person to exist in a celebrity's body for fifteen minutes; he also told himself his wife Lottie, who at first didn't believe it and thought it was absurd. But when Krieger took her on an experience, which happened to be a meeting with Machin, Lottie suddenly realized the desire to be a male in her body, and found that she was actually bisexual and deeply married. Kexin is fascinated. (45min)
The opportunity was successful, and customers kept getting into John Malkovich's body and getting excited. Lottie invited Maxine to dinner at home, and from Maxine's coquettish tone, Lottie and Krieger couldn't help kissing her. Mackin slaps Krieger unceremoniously, showing that she has no affection for Krieger; and she strokes Lottie, claiming that she only likes him when she is inside John. Depressed by the long line of customers, Krieger rushes home to lock Lottie and the orangutan together, and threatens her to call Maxine to meet; the real John Malkovich on the other hand realizes When something was wrong, he found this entrance. (60min)
The orangutan looked at Lottie, who was struggling, and thought of his "shadow of childhood" - his parents were tightly tied by the merchant, and he couldn't untie them, but was captured by the merchant together. This also corresponds to Lottie's statement that the orangutan is traumatized. (This memory made me cry 555) The orangutan helped Lottie untie and called Maxine to explain all this, but Maxine didn't care about Lottie, but how much John Malkovich could bring her. Interests. Disheartened, Lottie went to Professor Lester, where the professor explained to her about the sojourn and how to transfer to another person's body to continue living. A room full of old people are puppets coveting the body of 44-year-old John Malkovich. (1h15min)
John Malkovich's body was occupied by Krieger for a long time, and through this body he married and had a child with Maxine, who also became John's right-hand man. And Krieger made an important decision in his place, quitting the big screen to become a puppeteer. And the extraordinary artistic ability of Krieg in his body made him usher in the second spring of his career, and puppets became popular in that era. But when he got home from the show and found Maxine missing, he panicked. Lester used this to coerce him to leave John's body, while Lottie and Maxine started a scene of constantly witnessing the puppets laughing and mocking others in reincarnation. Eventually Krieger gave up John's body because of Maxine, and Lester and his friends managed to get in. And when Krieger returns to a life where he really has nothing, Lottie and Maxine abandon him too. (1h30min)
The poorest person in the film should be the real John Malkovich. The best part I have to mention in the whole film is that when he enters his body, it is a completely different scene. He sees countless himself, whether it is a breastless or a coquettish, whether it is a dwarf or a waiter. Every one is him, and every one is not him. People's perception of self is sometimes so torn, but in fact, whether it is good or bad, it is John Malkovich. And Krieger is a man who has never been loved through and through. His wife bravely pursues her love after discovering that she is bisexual, unlike the one who had followed the rules and looked after animals honestly. Life may be like this. You haven't gone crazy once because you haven't met someone or something that can really change your life. It reminded me of Crand's description in "A Good Book" I read tonight. Rarely does one really realize that they are different in the process of self-discovery, except that Crand realizes that he should paint and Lottie realizes that he should throw everything away in pursuit of love. Machin is nothing but a shrewd person through and through, staying awake in every relationship, leading Lottie and Krieger to do a series of things for her. But in fact, Maxine also clearly rejected Krieger from the very beginning, but Krieger fell in love with her at first sight, this kind of inexplicable love without results, everyone is performing.
Whether it is the repressed society reflected in the seven and a half layers, we walk humbly but don’t feel anything wrong, maybe this is the habit of being suppressed and suppressed; or the one they saw in the reincarnation of Lotima Kexin puppets, they look different but are equally abominable, laughing at their comrades urinating their pants rather than helping; children crying and repeating themselves in the dark room over and over that I am not good; neatly dressed men in suits sniffing their panties ; A couple sitting on a sofa and saying "You are horrible"... Every ugly moment that magnifies human nature is not a projection of our despicable human nature.
Becoming John Malkovich is everyone's wish in the movie. Maybe they want to experience star life out of their own frustrations, maybe they want to enter someone else's body and have a new experience out of curiosity, or maybe they just want to get love through this body , and even survive from generation to generation through such sojourns. And when we want to "become" someone, we have already become puppets, puppets with no right to speak, no independent personality, and no future to speak of. But it can also be said that those who preach that they have an independent personality have several layers of dark sides that they only know about.
People may have to become puppets in order to survive "happily" generation after generation. Man can never explore himself, just as John Malkovich never had himself.
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