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Tre 2021-10-20 17:36:12

Craig, the doll operator, lost hope in his career, and came to the Leicester Company on the "seventh and a half floor" of the Mertin Flemer Building in New York to work as a document manager in order to make a living. He accidentally discovered a secret passage in the office that could lead to the brain of the famous Hollywood actor John Malkovich, experience the world from his perspective for fifteen minutes, and then was thrown back into the ditch by the New Jersey highway. The brief experience in Markovic's mind made Craig very excited, and he immediately told his bewitched female colleague Maxine and his bad wife Lottie.
Maxine doesn't care about the philosophical problems caused by channels, and he advocates using channels to make money! Maxine and Craig became partners and started the "JM Company", renting out the aisles after work for 15 minutes for 200 yuan. The following development became even more frantic. After Craig's wife Lottie entered the passage, she claimed to have found herself, changed her sexuality, and fell in love with Maxine. Maxine also became obsessed with Lottie, and the two women had sex with Markovic's body.
Craig went crazy with jealousy and put Lottie in a cage, pretending that she entered Markovic's mind for Maxine's appointment. Lottie immediately called and told Maxine after he escaped. It was then that Maxine realized, "I like you, but only when you are in Markovic." She ruthlessly rejected Lottie. After discovering that Craig, who is good at manipulating dolls, could control Markovic’s mind and body, Maxine threw himself into his arms and encouraged him to completely occupy the body of the star, occupy his wealth and status, and even You can use this body's reputation to seek the success of the puppet business!
Craig obeyed Maxine's suggestion, and he realized his dream easily and became a master of puppet theater; Maxine was pregnant and expecting to give birth, and the two enjoyed the prosperity and wealth together.
Desperate Lottie retaliated. She and Lester, the manager of the "Seventh Floor" company who understood the channel's profound meaning, and his organization kidnapped Maxine and forced Craig to leave Markovic's body. Lottie, who was burning with jealousy, even wanted to kill Maxine, "If I can't get you, others will not think about it!" Maxine escaped into the passage, and because Craig still occupied Markovic’s main consciousness , Lottie and her staged a fierce hunting scene in Markovic's subconscious. Fifteen minutes later, they were thrown back to the highway. In the heavy rain, Maxine confessed to Lottie and confessed that she left the child in her belly because Lottie was pregnant when she was in Markovic...
Finally, the two women live together with their love crystallization. Craig became a wandering soul, trapped in Maxine's daughter, losing his career, love, and self. The invisible line of puppets on his body will control his life.

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Extended Reading
  • Angel 2021-10-20 19:01:57

    Charlie Kaufman is undoubtedly a genius screenwriter. He has poured countless metaphors into this black comedy and presented it with his imagination. The relationship between manipulation and being manipulated throughout the film is extremely accurate and hints at the situation of people in reality, including the extremely narrow seventh and a half floors, which are also true portrayals of the life of suffocation. Among them, the most amazing is undoubtedly Marr. Kovic’s self-peeling was so wonderful that he shuddered.

  • Salma 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    We are lost in the loss after obtaining, we are lost in the irritability of not pursuing. Everyone can't help but ask themselves, what am I for, what do I want? But the answer is constantly changing, in a different form, at a different time

Being John Malkovich quotes

  • Craig Schwartz: You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes. Then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike!

  • John Malkovich: I've gotta know the truth, Charlie.

    Charlie: The truth is for suckers, Johnny boy.