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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.
If you come with me, I'll give you one Michael is almost definitely Momotaro and Lisa, the Dog, with everyone else in his life/his emotional issues serving as the demons. So it's apparently another way of illustrating his worldview.
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.
Jan 14, 2016 · The directors of the best movie of 2015, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, talk about making a masterpiece in our Anomalisa interview.
Mar 8, 2016 · In many ways, despite the biting humor and richly defined, deeply human characters, Anomalisa is as depressive as its protagonist. Most filmmakers would have made a heartfelt ode to overcoming loneliness out of the material, akin to Tom McCarthy’s moving The Station Agent.
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Jan 18, 2016 · A surreal, deeply emotional. The film is still slowly being released theater by theater, but the Oscar nomination has brought it new attention. I recently talked to Johnson and Kaufman about a few...
