Superb atmospheres. Do you want the immortality? See the film

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2000)

Lilliputian and dreamy atmospheres introduce the spectator into the marionettes world of Craig (John Cusack). Meanwhile the story gets complex and the dream to manage people like puppets is confirmed for a moment. The incapacity of communication is filtered and overcome by misusing somebody else's body. It has reminded me, in a different way, the very essential message of "Cyrano de Bergerac". Having found a tunnel, a passage, which ferries into the head of John Malkovich gives an immediate benefit to succeed in love with the woman of your dreams. But this passage could be also used, with a sort of sexual ambiguity, by the wife-Lotte (Cameron Diaz), misusing once again John Malkovich's body. The wrong ferrying process could bring to very disappointing effects: like being trapped in an undesired body or searching into the private unconscious of John Malkovich. But the very essential of this brilliant, and very original film is how to get the immortality using, by time to time, a different "body container". John Malkovich is majestic, Spize Jonze has done a demential and absurd but original and clever superb film. At the end the only question to ask is: are all of us puppets or puppeteer? Rating: 7