Question

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2000)

Does this film look into the relationship between the spectator and the actor? Am I reading something into Being John Malkovich that just isn't there? In other words John Cussack and Cameron Diaz are dowdy - ugly - dissatisfied - bored - yearning but unsuccessful and then they discover something...something that allows them for a short period of time to envelop another's body, another persona. They become happy escaping into the psyche of another human being - whom just so happens to be a famous actor. They feel like they have found themselves during these short periods of time. Things are safe and exciting all at once. They want to do it again and again - just so they can escape their own sense of humdrum and there's always the middleman willing to take their money (aka Catherine Keener). Isn't this just like our experience of film and the cinema. Don't we go to vicariously live someone else's life for a while - to forget our own ennui - to be john malkovich?
Maybe I'm just up my own a**e? It's just one of the many strands I thought about when watching this movie.