character film

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2001)

Long before Titanic and Brookheimer, there was films such as Raging Bull or Chinatown. Films about characters. The story was not that important, it was just a scope for the film, but now it becomes more and more a cage. Of course there are films just for entertainment, just for having fun and feeling good. But those films I´m talking about and Man on the Moon by Milos Forman is part of them can give more to the audience. Identification, not by the the story of a person, but of his heart. Jim Carrey gave his heart to a man, died before a long time, and he played him such as he was alive again. Nobody can believe this man seen on the screen is not Andy Kaufman. But there are people who just don´t like Jim Carrey and they don´t give him a chance. His role in Truman Show was the beginning of a career which can present us an actor with an unbelievable tragicomedy. And Man on the moon is in a direct way tragicomically. The viewer feels for this lifetime clown and he loves him. This film is something for everybody. It doesn´t work with loud sound, it is just straight to our feelings. And I hope many person will recognize this, and we can come back to more films, with characters in their leading role.