Off-the-wall, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking...

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2003)

1st watched 4/12/2003 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Spike Jonze): Off-the-wall, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking trip into how far people will go for eternity. Yes, the title is `Being John Malkovich' but it's more about being reborn into another person and therefore living forever. Cusack plays a puppeteer who can't get work in this profession until he finds a portal in his new job's office that leads him into the title character's mind. This soon becomes a profitable experience for him and his partner and lust/love interest and they are selling tickets for $200 a pop to enter in. There is much more to this movie including Cusack's attempt to hold on to his wife and later his girlfriend. His wife, played by Cameron Diaz, and her trip and discovery into being a lesbian thru Malkovich's mind and much much more. What makes this movie good is it's complexity although it's direction is confusing. It starts out as a comedy, but ends as an eerie supernatural thriller. I believe it would have been a better movie if they would have picked one or the other. Despite this, the movie is definetly a unique experience to be seen.