Bizarre but witty look at the desperation of our times...

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2000)

The brilliance of this movie was its insight into human nature; the pain of this movie was its insight into human nature. The basic concept of stepping out of our lives and into someone else's alone is just wonderful. Women or men get to enjoy the feeling of experiencing an alternate sexuality, feeling thin if you are large, feeling important if you are dull. The portal that takes people there is the key to the movie. The film really also serves as an exploration of what we do as people surfing the web, interacting as whoever we want to be. The fact that the author chose John Malkovich is also interesting. A brilliant actor, but a surly and intense man, JM is not a pretty boy actor, not a vacuous Treat Williams type, but a character actor - one who will play a killer, a psycho or whatever challenging role comes along. The reality is that even for the gristly Malkovich ordering towels over the phone is fun and games for some one looking through his eyes. The sexual chemistry of having sex as someone else with someone else also gets a little weird and interesting. It made the sexual partners straight, gay, there and yet voyeur all at once. The twists and turns are really endless.