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All is not as it appears. Once again, my interesting
taste in movies has led me to another warped movie.
Being John Malkovich is an engaging tale of a
puppeteer (John Cusack,) who due to lack of popular
appeal, applies for a job as a clerical worker on the
seven and a half floor of a office building. The seven
and a half floor also happens to be _ the size of a
normal floor.
All the people in this floor are, shall we say, odd.
The boss is a lecherous senile old man. The secretary
is a weirdo with a hearing problem. The co-worker is
highly attractive and cruelly blunt. But not all is
as it appears. In the puppeteer's filing office
there is a tiny portal behind the filing cabinets that
leads into John Malkovich's head. This trip into
Malkovich's head lasts fifteen minutes and then spits
the traveler out onto the grass by the New Jersey
turnpike.
The puppeteer's beautiful co-worker convinces him to
turn Being John Malkovich into an amusement park-like
ride for two hundred dollars per ride. And that's
when the real problems begin, especially when Cameron
Diaz's character, the puppeteer's wife, enters and all
the people's lives will never be the same
again.
John Malkovich gives an absolutely stunning
performance as himself....well, sort of. John Cusack
is inventively entertaining. And Cameron Diaz doesn't
even resemble herself.
Being John Malkovich is an original make you think it
over kinda movie and I think most people would enjoy
seeing it...it wasn't the absolute best thing I've
ever seen, so it gets an eight on a scale of ten.
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