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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.
- 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.
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.
Again this is intended. That's the question then: how are we any different from these puppets? What makes us human? I think really the character of Lisa is Kaufman's answer. He isn't going to explain it to us; he will do one better and give us a character who essentially exemplifies what it means to be human in this world.
Jan 2, 2016 · So to answer anyone's question to why Anomalisa is so amazing, it's because it is a very complex psychological film that ponders the unsettling mind of Michael and the ultimate tragedy of his struggles, but also a testament to human connection.
I think Anomalisa is, weirdly enough, a celebration of normality as well as a satire of the sort of indie film where two "outsiders" are magically saved from dealing with other people by meeting each other. Despite his view of "everyone else" as being vacuous, it's Michael who seems to be truly empty.
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Jan 14, 2016 · How do you two collaborate as a duo? Is one of you the big picture guy and the another all about the small details? The movie has a very personal, singular vision.
