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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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wow !
what a movie .
it 's everything a movie can be : funny , dramatic , interesting , weird , funny , weird and strikingly original .
yep that pretty much describes this movie .
it starts out like a regular movie and ends up being one of the weirdest , funniest most original movies i have ever seen .
it boggles the mind and some have to wonder why we can not get movies like this more often .
besides being one of the best films of the year , being john malkovich may as well be one of the best movies ever .
period .
then again there are so many good movies , that one can not pick an all time favorite .
john cusack plays
a puppeteer craig schwartz a man out of a job , in search of a job .
his wife lotte schwartz who is played by a completely un - noticeable cameron diaz who looks like something off the streets is an animal lover and has about every kind of animal you could think of .
craig finds a job as a file at the 7 ? floor of a business building .
.. you have to pry open the elevator doors open before it reaches floor eight , the 7 ? floor is just a floor between 7 and 8 .
he is hired by his 105 year old boss ( orsen bean ) to be a filer .
in his office , he discovers a little door , to which was boarded up and hidden .
to his curiosity he opens it and starts to crawl toward it , he then gets sucked to the end and ends up in john malkovich 's mind .
fifteen minutes later he is shot out onto the side of the new jersey turnpike .
he returns to tell his co - worker maxine ( catherine keener ) that he has found a portal that will lead him into john malkovich 's mind , she does n't believe him but after she sees it it changes her mind .
lotte also finds out about the portal and discovers that being someone else is good after all .
john malkovich of course has no idea what is going on , and by the end of this bizarre film there are so many twists and turns , that we do n't know what really happened .
john cusack is outstanding and utterly believeable in a role only he himself could play .
he fits the role perfectly and to me was brilliantly cast .
cameron diaz is outstanding and utterly one of the world 's most prettiest women , is made up here unnoticeable and very unattractive .
she however gives a very comic performance and this could easily be her best role to date .
catherine keener is very funny and sexy as maxine and of course the best thing of the movie is the magic himself john malkovich who is very brilliant and this movie plays big time homage
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to the master himself .
the whole group combined gives us a wonderfully funny movie that is also smart and clever .
spike jonze ( three kings ) makes his fabulous directing debut , and did a fantastic job of directing this new classic film .
he lets the viewer go on the trip as well as let the viewer know they are watching a movie .
by the time the ending rolled around my head was spinning from disbelief of how good this film was .
the screenplay written by charlie kaufman was hilarious and often thought - provoking .
the film also had a soft side to it and even though the ending is very surprising it is also a little sad and heart - warming .
the whole movie was fantastic and had me rolling in the isles . from cameron diaz 's appearence to john malkovich 's explorations i laughed very hard , and it may as well be as funny as as good as it gets ( the funniest ! ) .
there is n't a slow point in the movie , or an overused idea .
there are no cliches except for the fact that this is the most original , inventie , witty , and smart movie i 've seen in a long time .
i found myself amazed by everything : the direction , acting , writing and the whole idea of the movie .
by the end i had to wonder why hollywood does n't want to make movies like this anymore .
or why they do n't .
all filmmakers watch this movie and get some ideas of movies to come out .
this was a surprise hit as was american beauty . ' being john malkovich '
is in the top 5 movies of the year , and in the top 10 best films ever made .
it has something that no other movies playing now has .
in fact it may as well be the best movie out right now .
i highly recommend ' being john malkovich ' and have no doubts you will be disappointed .
answer:
P


question:
the love for family is one of the strongest driving forces in any man 's life , especially for those who have fostered their family under precarious circumstances .
thematically in cinema , love for family has been used frequently and emphatically to highlight more abstract aspects of characters ; it is rare , however , for it to develop as outstandingly as it does in roberto benigni 's neo - classic drama , life is beautiful .
through a central cast of father , mother , and son , benigni demonstrates the wonderful , undying love that a family shares in the best of times and the worst of times .
life
* is * beautiful for guido orefice ( roberto benigni , directing himself here for the sixth time in his career ) , an italian jew , master con man , and aspiring waiter extraordinaire .
living in 1930 's italy , he lives a carefree life of good fortune ; it is made even better when he happens upon a pretty schoolteacher named dora ( nicoletta braschi ) .
although dora is already engaged , guido manages to sweep her off her feet and persuades her to marry him instead ; the two have a child named joshua ( giorgio cantarini ) .
unfortunately for the happy family , the third reich and its nazi minions occupy italy and imprison all jews in work camps .
it is after the movie takes this dramatic turn that the movie 's theme of family love becomes the strongest .
although prior to this turning point benigni plays guido with a sort of goofy charm , he relaxes the role to ensure his son 's happiness .
now , instead of awkwardly seducing the sweet dora , he constantly reassures his son that everything will be all right .
benigni 's performance is truly a well - rounded one , and certainly one of the more fluid turns all year .
the supports are all strong as well , but the movie truly excels in its script .
life is beautiful is a self - proclaimed fable , one which tells its story in grand , two - part fashion .
in certain parts it manages to sink to the level of a " saturday night live " spinoff -- a number of humorous skits connected by a token plot -- but in the movie 's second half the script 's circular nature becomes admirably obvious .
characters make reprise appearances in fine form , and certain events which are intially curious become critically linked to the plot 's outcome .
in all , fans of foreign film will see this as a memorable motion picture , and novice movie - watchers may take this opportunity to see their first " artsy " film .
life is beautiful is an artsy movie by convention but
easily accessible to everyone , and above all is a fine thematic picture .
answer:
P


question:
according to hitchcock and various other filmmakers , isolated motels , diners , gas stations and similar establishments in american southwest can be rather dangerous place for weary travellers .
at the beginning of eye of the storm , 1991 german-
american thriller directed by yuri zeltser , one of such places becomes deadly for their owners who get murdered during the stick up .
ten years later their son steven ( played by bradley gregg ) , who was blinded during the incident , still runs motel together with his older brother ray ( played by craig sheffer ) .
hardly anything happens there until alcoholic and abusive william gladstone ( played by dennis hopper ) gets stranded there with his attractive wife sandra ( played by lara flynn boyle ) .
their unexpected presence creates the chain of the events that would end in bloodshed .
yuri zeltser , author of this film , was obviously inspired by hitchcock 's psycho , but he chose to add some new and potentially interesting elements to the original plot .
instead of norman bates we have two brothers - one of them traumatised physically , another mentally .
sexual tension between beautiful female patron and shy motel clerk is heightened with the presence of alcoholic husband .
eye of the storm is impressive in visual sense , with photography by karl walter lindenlaub providing a lot of claustrophobic atmosphere .
the acting is fine - hopper , gregg and boyle are comfortable with their roles , but sheffer at times overacts his psycho routine .
unfortunately , eye of the storm , which was supposed to be intense psychological drama , deteriorates into cheap and predictable slasher flick during melodramatic finale .
in the end , this film reminds us that original approach ca n't prevent filmmakers from wasting too many opportunities .
( special note to the profiler fans : ally walker appears in the beginning of the film in the small role of killer 's girlfriend . )
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N