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Being John Malkovich by Stephen Farber Being John Malkovich recalls the wacky, psychedelic comedies of the '60s like Lord Love a Duck or The President's Analyst or I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. This film doesn't focus on drugs, but it has a trippy flavor and the characters (including those played by Cameron Diaz and John Cusack) do take a strange mind trip--they discover a portal that allows them to enter the body of John Malkovich (playing himself) and see the world through his eyes. It's not quite clear what the movie means to say about celebrity; the script is fuzzy. And as the movie takes on more of the feel of an acid trip, it becomes more strained: the filmmakers are stoned on weirdness for its own sake, which is the danger of becoming too enthralled by the freewheeling ethos of the '60s. What did you think of this movie? Sound off in the Movie Forum. |
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