hilarious!!!

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 1999)

A hilarious black comedy that also poses much symbolism to our everyday life. The scenes in the 7 1/2 floor are hilarious. So are the scenes when John Malchovich becomes himself. It also a story about being stuck in your own life and yearning to become someone else. First: the main charecter is a man trying to do the thing he loves, puppeteering. He cannot support his family doing that, so he has to get a job filing. Second: He finds a way to escape his life as a man stuck in a dead end job and become another more sucsessful person who gets by doing what they love. Enter: John Malcovich. Third: He gets blinded by lust and ends up losing his sanity and his wife. Fourth: He starts a new life as a puppeteer using someone elses life. Fifth: He loses it all and becomes trapped in another life. It also poses provocative questions about love. And how love is not contained in boundries of a persons sex, and how it is a spiritual bond. I works on many levels: as a smart, hysterical comedy, a social commentary and as an amazingly innovated peice of cinema. A must-see by any person. I urge you all to: Become John Malcovich.