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Fascinating, unique, wonderful film. Highly recommended.
I watched Being John Malkovich for the first time last night. It was a great movie, and I have no idea why it took me so long to catch a late pass on this.
One aspect of the film that stuck out for me was how well Catherine Keener played her character Maxine, the manipulative antagonist. As the movie’s plot developed I began to hate her, and it was surprising how much emotion her performance invoked in me.
It’s easy to get caught up in disliking someone so much that you forget they’re acting, but I think it is the hallmark of a great “bad guy” performance. More often than not I find myself rooting for the “bad guys” in movies (unfortunately it’s a team that stays losing), but I think there’s a vast difference between the bad guy you can root for and a truly evil villain.
The evil “bad guy” is often underrated because the role evokes such negative emotions in the viewer, but in reality the actor is just doing their job exceptionally well. Here’s to giving them the respect they deserve.
It’s going down back home.
When I quickened my pace to avoid being arrested, Mike planted his feet to get a pan shot of the events. This quickly made him the nearest person to the cop with the three stripes. The officer quickly refocussed his attention on Mike and announced that he had already given an order to leave and that Mike was now in violation. Mike replied that he wasn’t there as a demonstrator but as a journalist, assuming, as any reasonable person would, that he was thereby exempt from the order and permitted to document the events.
Timeless.
Dave Pires 