Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa won almost universal critical plaudits - but I didn't like it. It's clever, it's well done and it raises the bar on stop-motion animation to new, almost unimaginable heights - but for me that's where it ends.
The story is bleak, the characters dull or unlikely to engage much sympathy and the ending goes nowhere. Stone's obvious nervous breakdown does not engage our normal response of empathy for his plight, because he just isn't nice enough to warrant it. (Anoma)Lisa is somewhat more engaging, but she is irritatingly dimb and more interested in her own ......interests........than the family she is prepared for Stone to betray and leave to her benefit. Yes - the characters are all very human, but we know what life is like already. The trick of a good director is not only to hold a mirror up to life - we can all do that - but to pull something different out of the hat, and this Kaufman singularly fails to do.
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President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
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"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Do so Cag - I'll be interested to hear what you think (and am quite expectant to remain in a minority of one thereafter 
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).President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard