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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.
- 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.
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 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.
Aug 22, 2019 · Anomalisa: a humbling film to contemplate our existence. Charlie Kaufman stirs audiences to poignant reflection of their individualistic lifestyle while noting the beauty of human imperfection....
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Mar 10, 2016 · Anomalisa's central character of Michael Stone is voiced by British actor David Thewlis. By Emma Jones. Entertainment reporter. It's a tale of a world-weary, middle-aged man struggling to find...
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult stop-motion psychological comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson and written by Kaufman. It is based on a 2005 audio play by Kaufman that explores the Fregoli delusion.
