Sinister, constricted and dark film

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2006)

One first has to get past the sinister plot by Jonze to agitate the audience using a straight faced played story starring a famous reality story actor who starred in the Killing Fields and Empire of the Sun, Malkovich, playing a character with the same name as himself in this surreal, metaphysical essay on the forces that inspire murder.
An understanding that it is the compression of the workers' of the 7 1/2 floor spines and haemic system caused by their constant bending of their bodies to stand that is causing the temporary to permament insanity helps to see this film more clearly.
Turning up the brightness or gamma of this picture, 30% or so, illuminates this picture containing images of darkness in many forms, many night shots, both Craig and Lotte's faces at times encaved by their unkempt hair, the drawing of curtains. By contrast one of the few light scenes is set in the past, of children in a school bus.
Then a realisation that Craig Schwartz killed his wife that he had tried frequently to adulter and finally felt equal to on gaining employment after luring her to his office with his fantasy story and locking her at night (heatedly on a Thursday when a Friday with the weekend next would obviously be more to his plot, "tomrrow, that would be perfect") in a hole behind filing cabinets in a wall taking from Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, "wet, weird, that's nice, oh, oh, umm, oh, sexy", chills this macabre, disturbed tale.
He spares Maxine, keeping her piously above his level of dirty crime during his serial killing spree with each victim added to his wall. His epitomal goal of killing his wealthy boss and his friends is apparently, eventually achieved in this happy ended film.
Being John Malkovich turns into a PC lesbian partnership motherhood story with a happy ending, the fantastical, narcissistic view of Craig being replaced by natural, inevitably prevailing justice.
BTW, I've chatted up the pretty, young, lady Bjork, that sings the end credits song, when she was going out with Goldie at a club night of his in London.
--- by Jerome, computer coder, author, and voter of 1,000 films.