Being John Malkovich

I watched "Being John Malkovich" a few days ago. It is a movie that came out just over 20 years ago and it has anticipated today’s days: it's a critique of the world of culture and its representation.

The basic idea of the film is mainly one: that the life of the celebrities is much better than ours. But the film is a huge game of smoking mirrors: everything reflects and is reflected, every thought is superimposed on the other and you never know who manipulates whom. 

The rhythm of the film is very high and never bores until that wonderful scene (the best ever of the entire film) in which the actor John Malkovich decides to get into his head. The restaurant scene becomes the emblem of mass society, of the prevailing conformity. Everyone wants to be Malkovich, everyone orders Malkovich. Everything is object, everything is on sale, all people (even women) have the face of John Malkovich as in the movie poster that you can see up here. In a few words, here served the conformism and the flattening of level that today is sovereign. 

Highly recommended!