{"id":9252,"date":"2016-10-01T21:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:22:24","slug":"being-john-malkovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/being-john-malkovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Being John Malkovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Do you see what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being John Malkovich<\/strong>, released in 1999<\/p>\n<p>Craig, a puppeteer, gets a job at a filing company on floor 7 1\/2 of an office building. He finds a hole behind a filing cabinet. Astonishingly, this hole leads to John Malkovich&#8217;s head. In other words, anyone who goes through the hole will see what John Malkovich sees and feel what John Malkovich feels.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very bizarre movie, but it has its own internal logic. I wish I could watch it again for the first time to be astonished by its uniqueness.<\/p>\n<p>Some of it is funny, some of it is disturbing, and a lot of it is absurd. It&#8217;s about puppetry, being someone else, and living forever.<\/p>\n<p>John Malkovich didn&#8217;t agree to be in the movie the first time they asked him, or the second &#8212; but I&#8217;m glad he did agree.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Charlie Kaufman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/anomalisa\/\"><strong>Anomalisa<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Katherine Keener, and Orson Bean. Directed by Spike Jonze (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/her\/\"><strong>Her<\/strong><\/a>). The mysterious music is by Carter Burwell.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 3rd or 4th time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Do you see what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is?&#8221; Being John Malkovich, released in 1999 Craig, a puppeteer, gets a job at a filing company on floor 7 1\/2 of an office building. He finds a hole behind a filing cabinet. Astonishingly, this hole leads to John Malkovich&#8217;s head. In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16565,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}