Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 surrealist comedy film in which characters discover a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich.
The title has become shorthand for any strange, self-referential experience of inhabiting another person's consciousness or perspective: Reading her diary felt like being John Malkovich.
The film's premise spawned the broader concept of "being [celebrity name]" to describe vicarious or parasitic identification with famous people.
- movieRecorded visual narrative
- JohnCommon male name
- filmMovie or coating
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
puppetry · absurdism · portal · mind control · existentialism · scriptwriter · satire · director · consciousness · identity · Spike Jonze · philosophy of mind · screenplay · comedy · postmodernism · free will · celebrity culture · surrealism
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- Spike Jonze Films
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