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Being John Malkovich
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy inventive existential comedy that turns bizarre premises into unsettling questions about identity, desire, and the urge to inhabit someone else’s life.
- Tone
- surreal, darkly comic, cerebral
- Payoff
- amusement, revelation
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- identity, bodily autonomy, desire, control, exploitation
- Setting
- contemporary, drab offices and surreal interior spaces
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