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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.
Oct 30, 2015 · That got him thinking about a companion piece in which one actor would provide nearly all the voices that populated a character’s world — a simulation of a real-life disorder called Fregoli...
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At first, it sounds like a longing for someone to relate to. Then you think about what Michael sees with Lisa the morning after, and the questions he asks from before takes on a whole new meaning!
- 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 14, 2016 · The directors of the best movie of 2015, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, talk about making a masterpiece in our Anomalisa interview.
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 · 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...
