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MOVIE REVIEW OF ANOMALISA: An Edward Hopper Painting Come to Life
Charlie Kaufman's film ANOMALISA is the movie that moved and thrilled me the most this year. It's not for everyone, but it was for me. Kaufman gives us trippy, amazing movies like ETERNAL SUNSHINE, and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. And this movie is just as trippy and amazing but not in his usual way. Eternal Sunshine threw us into sci-fi territory with a machine that could erase painful memories, and the visuals were a beautiful nightmare. Malkovich gave us John M in a red dress on a p iano, John M in a hallucination of multiple Malkoviches. But ANOMALISA felt different to me. What was trippy was the presentation (stop motion puppets) but for a change the content was surprisingly naturalistic and realistic (middle aged man has identity crisis en route to giving a motivational speech). But it's in the lovely, cryptic dialog, the surrealism appears. Kind of like in a Haruki Murakami novel where simple reality starts taking tiny, menacing, magical U-turns. It also rem
Hi Dwight, just checked out The Prospect of my Arrival on Amazon. What a neat concept!!!
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Thanks for checking out the book, Myra. Feel free to follow my blog if you like. I'm developing my next book The Hope Store. Do you have a blog I can follow?
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Myra, I should mention that it's soft sci-fi rather than hard sci-fi.
DeleteNOTE: The cute promo device is no longer on the blog. But it was an animation of my book on the shore with waves lapping over it.
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