Practical Incarnation

Rating: 9/10 (6 November 1999)

This movie examines who we are. Am I still me if you are in my head? Are you still you if I am in your head. Who is you?
With questions like these you might expect that BJM is a deep movie plumbing the dark recesses of the cosmos. Not really.
True, it is a comedy that bends the lines between genders and species. It plays havoc with the truths of existence and the sanctity of the human soul. It even bends the mortality of man into something like practical incarnation, yet it's funny.
Disturbing yet hilarious. What WOULD happen if someone could enter a portal into their own head? The answer the movie provides is both gut-wrenchingly funny and bizarre.
The small door that serves as a portal to John Malkovich's head is similar to the rabbit hole in Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking Glass". A portal to a strange new universe. A universe right behind your eyes. Who knows what lurks in the soul of man? BJM knows. (deep laughter)