Genuine emotions induced by the story

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2011)

One can never doubt, after perceive the name Charlie Kaufman on the screen, that in the following moments your mind will be sagaciously, intellectually and emotionally played. When a man with such talent on writing decides to unleash his artistic sensibility, the result will hardly be ordinary. Being John Malkovich can easily be defined as a modern fairy tale, presenting all distinctive ingredients, such as fantastic yet rustic elements, with whimsical characters wrapped on quick-paced storytelling, all converging to the constant variation of feelings and a possible final insight.
Personally, my final classification would be far from the ''comedy'' label that was fed to me before watch the film. It's definitely closer to a horror movie, considering the wretched outcome most characters end up in. Aside from an excellent, really funny scene (''Malkovich!''), the whole movie is a downward path on personage psyche; human flaws, needs, desires and sentiments dealt on a crude manner, represented by the door of becoming someone else. The ending can be considered distressful, when we realize that Malkovich is doomed to perpetuate his existence on the void of his own mind, or Craig Schwartz, emotionally shattered, forced to contemplate other's bliss due to his absence, through a child's eyes.
As uncomfortable as the sense of ruthless injustice determined by the final scenes is, it does not count negatively on the experience. Whatever the traces of indignation towards some outcomes may have surfaced, they were genuine emotions induced by the story. And at this particular department, Kaufman never drops the ball, for the exceptional capability of attach us sentimentally to his creation, imprisoning the viewer on the plot. Perhaps it's the identification that every person has regarding egoistical, self-centered and bitter personal characteristics, but the result is that is effective all the time when presented properly.
Yes, this movie can touch us this deep; the synergy of characters and situations drag us to a state of reflection as ''Amphibian'' by Björk carry the ending credits, and that state, however glad, melancholic or even just shocked, is a prerequisite for every film to be always remembered closely.