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Dec 29, 2015 · The characters in “Anomalisa” unsettle. Their plight makes you think about 21st century loneliness, despair and alienation— subjects that would be unpalatable if Kaufman didn’t write his characters so compassionately and with such dry humor.
In a way, knowing the Fregoli factoid is a distraction, because it tempts us to think this is a movie about a fictional character with a mental problem. Michael Stone isn't a psych textbook chapter, he's a cautionary tale.
- The World in One Thinly Veiled Voice
- She’S Not Like All The Others- Or Is She?
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In all of Kaufman’s works, the protagonist is so wrapped up in his own thoughts and impressions that the world is a distant, impenetrable, and alienating place. Never is this truer than in Anomalisa. Michael Stone, a British ex-pat living with his wife and son in Los Angeles (a perfectly cast voice of David Thewlis), is about to spend one day and n...
As previously noted, the trailer is edited in such a way that Anomalisa is touted as a life-affirming, uplifting tale of finding a person to complete one’s self. Of course, the trailer never mentions Michael’s delusions, or the fact that the ultimate attempt at romantic fulfillment, marriage, is a colossal disappointment for the melancholy writer. ...
Calhoun, Dave. “Anomalisa Review,” Time Out London, 2016. Langdon, R. “The Fregoli Delusion: a Disorder of Person Identification and Tracking,” Top Cognitive Science, 2014. Smith, Zadie. “Windows On The Will,” New York Review of Books, 2016. What do you think? Leave a comment.
Jan 2, 2016 · Anomalisa is a fine example of how bleak storytelling should be. At first it might seem spacey and tough to unravel, but once you find that pinhole of context the scope of its narrative widens to greater depths.
Oct 30, 2015 · Part existential comedy and part bittersweet romance, “Anomalisa” is immediately identifiable as a Charlie Kaufman movie, by its thematic exploration of the gulf between the world and how our...
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Anomalisa is essentially the movie Charlie Kaufman's character in Adapation wanted to make before Robert McKee yelled at him about how stupid his idea sounds; everything is mundane, nothing changes, everyone is a disappointment, life goes on.
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Mar 10, 2016 · Director Charlie Kaufman explains how his first venture into animation with the acclaimed Anomalisa is more emotionally real than human drama.
