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User Reviews for: Anomalisa

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CONTAINS SPOILERS/10  8 years ago
An adult film in stop-motion.

A middle-aged executive with too much power is going through a mid-life crisis, and has an affair. The same effect is created in the audience by having the same male voice in almost all characters in the film. The world becomes more interesting --- for both the executive and the audience --- when a different (feminine) voice finally shows up in the film. And so, because a real woman is different from the sameness that pervades his life, the executive falls in love with the woman --- who happens to be a groupie of his. He even plans on divorcing his wife and abandoning his son. But after a drunken night of sex, even this new and unique woman's voice begins to change to the same voice he hears everywhere --- and this happens when this executive starts attempting to control the unsophisticated girl who has become his new love interest in order to change her to his wants and expectations. I suppose that is the point of the movie. One must allow people to be the anomalies they are to begin with and not attempt to change them into other versions of ourselves, or else the world will become extremely bland and boring. It is this message that rescues it from simply being an adult sex film --- albeit one done in stop-motion.

And I suppose there is another bright spot to this movie. It clearly shows that men and women are different, and not simply interchangeable. The movie is truly unpleasant when only a male voice is heard throughout. But then a feminine voice shows up, and her voice is the most refreshing sound in the movie, for the audience as well as the main protagonist. Surely this is evidence that the significant difference of sex actually is important to our very senses. Against those who would deny the objective existence of biological gender this movie is a refreshing counterexample.

However, the film also seems to teach that abandoning your wife and children for the sake of a paramour if they have become boring to you is an acceptable price to pay.
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