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So I started in the middle of the story, after the "Intermission", on the train with the characters, and I was wondering so much, but guessed "hmm, maybe there'll be a flashback here and there". I didn't realize what I did until the end.
- 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.
May 9, 2017 · The story of Anomalisa follows protagonist—deeply depressed Michael Stone—as he travels to Cincinnati to speak at a business conference on customer service. There, he reunites with an ex-flame...
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.
From a visual standpoint, it mostly follows one character in tight close ups with everything else out of focus. It's brilliant cinematography, and it's done with purpose, but it makes for a claustrophobic, uncomfortable viewing experience (but, again, for a purpose).
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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.
