Being Charlie Kaufman

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2019)

"Being John Malcovitch" is, in summary, a film about love, minds and puppets. Charlie Kaufman has proven once again, and this time mor than ever, that in order for a script to work it has to be an honest one, a script written by a person and a piece of art that illustrates that person's thoughts and emotions. I am amazed by the fact that with every movie he makes he shows a side of himself, a piece of his heart. His films are him and he is his films. As for this work...
It is a detailed, raw and (in a good way) dizzing illustration of what it means to "be", to exist, to be trapped in a body, your body, to want, to need, to ache, to crave for something and because of your misery to get it you become another to be pleased... BOOM! I mean every singe moment I think about his films a new thing pops up!
So, now I am going to tell you my view on this film. Anyone who just wans a brief review, you can skip the next paragraph and head to the others.

As I see it, the film revolves around the idea of puppets. Yes, puppets. It sounds rediculous right? Well. a puupet can mean a lot. When we handle a puupet, we become another,we live another life, we control our a life and seize it the way we want to. We feel grand and free. Being another gives us joy because another means another life with new an interesting things to live. We are bored of our failure and sadness and we all seek that "other". How many times have you imagined how life would be if you had more money or a better house or a more pretty face or fame? How many times have played theater alone and rehearse what you are going to say to sb or your future life? How often have your expectations of a "happy ending" to your day proved you wrong? And puupets mean even more. Everyone can be a puppet. A person can control a person and at the same time be controlled by another person and it goes on forever. We are never really free, are we? EVEN in the film industry. The cast is the puppets, the director pulls the stings and he might be controlled by the writer or the production company and it goes on...

So, in short I loved this film because this film IS its creator. It is his view, his idea on love, pain, relationships, desires, lonelyness. "Being John Malkovich" never feels like a selling product or a popcorny blockbuser made to make money and make people laugh. We get to grasp our inescapable lonelyness and the fact that we are all the same, suffering being that is born , lives a huge part of life in despair and constant sadness and dies. Its attention to detail, from the maticulusly crafted puppets to the short hillarious documentaries, its authentic performances (Malcovitch is shining in this one) and its HONEST direction and writing make this film a gem and an insight to the great Charlie Kaufman. If only I could be in his mind...WAIT A MIN-