WOW!

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2001)

This film is inspired, hilarious and unnervingly touching. The script is absolutely original and the characters' interaction between each other very funny. The scenes between Keener and Cusack are wonderful.

The other day I was buying a hat and had my first real-life "loden" experience. You will remember loden is Malkovich's second choice color for his bath towels when he finds periwinkle is out of stock. Well, I was picking out a hat at a haberdashery, and as I checked out the label I saw that the color was loden. It was hilarious, but impossible to explain to the clerk.
I can't believe Being John Malkovich was overlooked by the Academy this year. It truly was better than anything else, and it has advanced film and humor theory forward more than any movie in a long time. In that respect it has a lot in common with Pulp Fiction.
It also would have been nice to hear the following surreal announcement at the Oscars: "And the Oscar goes to... John Malkovich, for Being John Malkovich."