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Spike Jonze' directorial debut, Being John Malkovich, is a madcap surreal comedy leading straight into John Malkovich's consciousness. Aimless puppeteer Craig (John Cusack) discovers the portal to Malkovich behind dusty file cabinets in the “Deep Storage” room at his filing firm located on the 7 1/2 floor. You get to occupy Malkovich's being for about 15 minutes before expulsion onto the New Jersey Turnpike. Needless to say, this is a very strange film. Amazingly enough, the movie soon escalates into heightened levels of absurdity.
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The soundtrack to Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed debut film Being John Malkovich features an equally idiosyncratic, bittersweet score by composer Carter Burwell that captures the film's mix of humor, sadness, and innovation. The album ... debuts two versions of Björk's "Amphibian," which continues the sparse, emotionally direct artistic path she began on Homogenic. Björk's spiraling vocals encircle the song's shuffling beat and eerie strings, harps, and whistles like smoke rings; even for someone as relentlessly innovative as she is, "Amphibian" is quite a departure. Last but not least, the soundtrack includes "Malkovich Masterpiece Remix," an extended version of John Malkovich's torchy love song to himself in one of the film's most mind-bending scenes. The Being John Malkovich soundtrack is a fitting companion piece to one of 1999's finest films. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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Movies like "Being John Malkovich" don't come around often. The originality factor in Hollywood productions have been sadly lacking in recent years, but hope should be restored after a film of such dazzling and brilliant creativity like this one is made. Nothing about it seems to be familiar, the ideas conceived and executed are totally off the wall, bursting with energy, and the finished product will leave you totally perplexed, amazed and compelled at every twist and turn. It's a modern fable that unfolds it's story like a game, and uses it's characters like puppets (John Cusak, Cameron Diaz and Cathering Keener are flawless), as they discover a new dimension of themselves after they enter someone else's conscience. "Being John Malkovich" explores the way lives can be totally warped by lust and greed, how the concept of "celebrity" drives ordinary people to extreme lengths, and the unexpected possibilities of accessing things through someone else's body. Some of the film's sequences are mind-blowing, it creates it's own beguiling world of illusion and reality (The scene where Malkovich enters his own mind is a work of sheer genius, rarely have I ever laughed so hard.) Unlike most comedies that never delve into anything intellectual, this film raises a very interesting issue about identity, how even given the opportunity to be someone else, the things you're surrounded by will slowly start you to resemble the ones in the past.
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Born on 22nd October, 1969 in Rockville, Maryland, Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich director, was called Adam Spiegel then. He was an avid BMX freestyle rider in his early years and was a part of the Rockville BMX crew. He received a sponsored ride with Haro Bikes and appeared as a BMX personality in many BMX publications like Freestylin and in contests like “Spike Needs a Girlfriend” in Sassy Magazine. However, Being John Malkovich remains his best work.Wikipedia
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