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This is so clearly wrong, so manifestly forbidden, so patently immoral, that the film loses its urgent ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Dreamcatcher The Myth of Destructibility By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Read these essays first: The Habitual Identity Death, Meaning, and Identity Being John Malkovich "Shattered" Identity
Is there a way to PROVE that one has visited another's mind? Or mind reading? The recording of dreams? This, precisely, is where the film crosses the line between the intriguing and the macabre. The master puppeteer, unable to resist his urges, manipulates John Malkovich and finally possesses him completely.
In the long run, Vincent proved more beneficial to human society and in more ways including financially then Theo could have ever been. Being John Malkovich By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The movie is a tongue in cheek discourse of identity, gender and passion in an age of languid promiscuity. It poses all the right metaphysical riddles and presses the viewers' intellectual stimulation buttons.
The basic question is "whose brain is it, anyway"? Does John Malkovich OWN his brain? Is one's brain one's PROPERTY? Property is usually acquired somehow. Does this process of acquisition endow us with property rights? It would seem that property rights pertaining to human bodies are fairly restricted. We have no right to sell our kidneys, for instance.
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