"What am I?

Pamela 2022-04-23 07:01:17

When I saw the puppet's head-up shot and the manipulator's up shot at the beginning, I guessed that this was a metaphor for God, after all, the hairstyle is too obvious. The puppet show at the beginning is echoed many times in the middle and at the end. This kind of progressive horror can be really chilling at times. The details of the film are also very rich, and they are intertwined with each other, not just where the paving is, but they are not related to each other. For example, the fact that Lotte has so many animals may imply that she is lonely or has a strong desire that cannot be satisfied. Maxine's image of chasing her own id desires without fear and worry is revealed in a few small gestures at the beginning, along with Craig's hesitant clumsiness, inferiority complex, and ambition.

Who are you when you're pretending to be someone else? Craig wants what he wants, but he doesn't dare to take the initiative to pursue it, or he doesn't have the strength to get it, so he can only use puppets to satisfy his desires - to become another person, to please Maxine and destroy him. yourself to get what you want. It's just that over time, he was bound by puppets. At that time, is he still the same Craig he used to be? If you lose the costume of the puppet, you will become nothing, so who is binding whom?

Or rather, what am I? I feel now that I am the sum of everything in the past. The actions that are self-born, given by others, inspired by the environment, the end result of all these actions, come together into me. So it can be said that there are countless mes and only one me. Maybe that's why Malkovich sees so much Malkovich when he enters his consciousness. One can say that without self, all thoughts are bound by the past, by experience, by family, by culture, by love, and by friends. But think about it from another angle, even so, everyone will form a unique self in different proportions.

The concept of inheritance in the film is also constantly metaphorical. In the passage that symbolizes the vagina, human culture is continuously passed on, from father to son, from generation to generation. The effect of the effect is as if those elders entered their own brains and made decisions for themselves, even after they died. From Melkovich's point of view, he's just a shell, and Craig is his strong sense of self, and it's hard for the elder's consciousness to get in until it's driven out. It is also said that a person's consciousness has basically been stereotyped after the age of 44, and it is difficult to change after that. Children, on the other hand, absorb everything they have received in childhood. Although there is no single strong sense of self, they are all silently expressed behind the scenes. That child, I am afraid, also received an inheritance from its two mothers more or less related to Craig. Maybe it will be expressed as Oedipus complex in the future. (Or Electra?)

Charlie Kaufman is a very talented screenwriter, and his scripts have a literati style that makes them fun to play with. At first glance, it seems so simple, but when you think about it, it is extremely terrifying, interlocking, and constantly metaphorical. This is probably the only two films I have seen after watching his thoughts.

————————

The way to live with the body is to live in peace with it. Thinking about it is nothing more than to let the superego be at peace with the id, let the elephant rider not flog the elephant, let the rationality subordinate to the emotion, and let one's own needs be satisfied without being overly suppressed. But, hehe. . .

View more about Being John Malkovich reviews

Extended Reading
  • Maurine 2022-03-21 09:01:16

    The charm of philosophy is that once open uncertainty defines it, it appears cheap. Before this movie, most of the people are discussing the connection between people. You can enter another person from a hole. So are you yourself or the person who entered? The whole setting is very interesting when combined with the lead puppet, but after the boss explains that he has multiple lives, the theme disappears and the crappy love triangle is even more obsessed with philosophy. It’s better to be pure.

  • Francisca 2021-10-20 19:01:57

    The puppets danced a dance called freedom under the spotlight, and fate played a movement called reincarnation above the clouds. Loneliness and desire test each other at the two ends of nothingness, innocence and wildness, and stare at each other at the end of reality. If all the joys, angers, sorrows and joys are cheap and involuntary, if all the love, hatred, sorrows and joys are agreed and helpless, then the secret thread hangs in front of me, I have exhausted all my enthusiasm to distinguish, but only grasped A handful of broken sunlight. It is indeed a genius screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. If the film is 1, then Mulholland is 0. Lynch tries to convey a completeness in the inexhaustible fragmentation, while Charlie Kaufman is just the opposite. He uses A complete expression of omnipresent fragmentation. From the domination of the body, to the invasion of consciousness, to the parasitism of the soul, this is a pervasive and transcending "fatalism of consciousness". From a metaphysical point of view, it is everything in a lifetime. From a philosophical point of view, you are me and we manipulate each other. It is crazy and absurd to attract each other, breed together, and finally turn into a certain idea in each other's subconscious! Such a powerful script will never be forgotten by many teenagers.

Being John Malkovich quotes

  • John Malkovich: That portal is mine and it must be sealed forever - for the love of God.

    Craig Schwartz: Mr. Malkovich, sir, with all due respect, I discovered that portal. I mean, it's my livelihood. You understand?

    John Malkovich: It's my head, Schwartz. It's my head! I will see you in court!

    [Malkovich trudges off along the shoulder of the turnpike]

    Craig Schwartz: [calling after him] What makes you think I won't be seeing what you're seeing... in court?

  • Craig Schwartz: Can I buy you a drink, Maxine?

    Maxine: Are you married?

    Craig Schwartz: Yes, but enough about me.