Anomalisa (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Cast: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Synopsis:
A customer service guru flies to Cincinnati to lead a conference, and while at his hotel becomes aware with increased desperation that he is surrounded by variations of the same person. Then he hears a voice that is different to all the others�
Review:
Welcome to the Kaufman world of social aphasia and alienation! This curious little film puts the viewer inside the mind of the 'sympathetic but not quite so attractive as everyone else seems to think' protagonist, and presents a perspective from which the rest of the world seems to have learnt one's own lessons in customer relations so well that they are unable to deviate from the anodyne language of superficial quotidian contact. Given a shot at redemption, he almost immediately attempts to smooth over all the anomalies of his newly discovered 'anomaly'. Is it a comment on the media age? Another study in paranoia? Or just a nightmarish portrait of incipient insanity? In any event, the realization is brilliant, with a number of laugh-out-loud moments and one embarrassingly awkward sex scene (which has a lot to do with the fact that the participants are not conventionally attractive, besides being puppets that resemble humans.)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Cast: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Synopsis:
A customer service guru flies to Cincinnati to lead a conference, and while at his hotel becomes aware with increased desperation that he is surrounded by variations of the same person. Then he hears a voice that is different to all the others�
Review:
Welcome to the Kaufman world of social aphasia and alienation! This curious little film puts the viewer inside the mind of the 'sympathetic but not quite so attractive as everyone else seems to think' protagonist, and presents a perspective from which the rest of the world seems to have learnt one's own lessons in customer relations so well that they are unable to deviate from the anodyne language of superficial quotidian contact. Given a shot at redemption, he almost immediately attempts to smooth over all the anomalies of his newly discovered 'anomaly'. Is it a comment on the media age? Another study in paranoia? Or just a nightmarish portrait of incipient insanity? In any event, the realization is brilliant, with a number of laugh-out-loud moments and one embarrassingly awkward sex scene (which has a lot to do with the fact that the participants are not conventionally attractive, besides being puppets that resemble humans.)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Cast: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Synopsis:
A customer service guru flies to Cincinnati to lead a conference, and while at his hotel becomes aware with increased desperation that he is surrounded by variations of the same person. Then he hears a voice that is different to all the others�
Review:
Welcome to the Kaufman world of social aphasia and alienation! This curious little film puts the viewer inside the mind of the 'sympathetic but not quite so attractive as everyone else seems to think' protagonist, and presents a perspective from which the rest of the world seems to have learnt one's own lessons in customer relations so well that they are unable to deviate from the anodyne language of superficial quotidian contact. Given a shot at redemption, he almost immediately attempts to smooth over all the anomalies of his newly discovered 'anomaly'. Is it a comment on the media age? Another study in paranoia? Or just a nightmarish portrait of incipient insanity? In any event, the realization is brilliant, with a number of laugh-out-loud moments and one embarrassingly awkward sex scene (which has a lot to do with the fact that the participants are not conventionally attractive, besides being puppets that resemble humans.)