Craziness

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2009)

Being John Malkovich is one of the weirdest,craziest movies I have ever seen and I've seen a fair share of "unusual movies".The story revolves around Craig Schwartz,played by John Cusack, a puppeteer who discovers a portal that leads to head of the famous actor John Malkovich who is indeed a famous actor in real life; so, right there the movie begins playing with perceptions.Schwartz and his colleague, Maxine turn this portal into a small business. For 200 dollars one can go trough the portal and be John Malkovich for 15 minutes experiencing,feeling and seeing whatever Malkovich does.Schwartz wife,Lotte,portrayed by Cameron Diaz finds out about the scheme and decides to go trough the portal as well.She is blown away by the experience and repeats it several times. At the same time Maxine meets in person with Malkovich(obviously played by the real John Malkovich) and begins a relationship with him, but truly, she is in a relationship with Lotte who keeps passing trough the portal therefor being John Malkovich.Maxine feels Lotte trough Malkovich and even calls him by that name.Schwartz, enraged by this relation tries to control Malkovich permanently in order to gain the affection of Maxine who never responded to his interest.The plot of the film is weird,odd,strange,peculiar and absolutely bizarre and as the story moves forward things get weirder and weirder.Its definitely an original movie but honestly, I didn't like it very much.The movie stumbles between several genres, sometimes it seems a science fiction piece,sometimes a fantasy tale,its a bunch of craziness in which there's no common denominator,there's no grip to reality so to speak,even within fantasy there's gotta be some sense, some reasoning, well,at least for me. I felt the story was something a person can only imagine/conceive while on a drug trip.It is that crazy.On a more positive note,John Malkovich delivered a good performance. Being John Malkovich is a very peculiar film but the truth is I think its weirdness is being mistaken by genius after all originality means its never been done before, doesn't mean something is good.I find it very overrated.I also think you must have a certain predisposition to these kind of films to enjoy this flick.Its definitely not for me.
5/10