What can I say? This was down right hilarious. I was the only person laughing at everything. Either I'm a dumbass or everyone else is a comedic philistine. It was witty, sarcastic, subtle, intelligent... Everyone was great in this. There were some shockers in it. I didn't expect the one scene with Pitt and then the scene where Malkovich goes ape shit, but then I was kindly reminded that the Coen brothers usually do this sort of fair, like Fargo and the end scene with the body being shredded. Or in No Country For Old Men, and Bardem puts his feet up so that he doesn't get Harrelson's blood on his cowboy boots. There is so much to talk about with this one. The satire on the CIA, the superficial materialism (I especially loved McDormand who wanted liposuction when she worked at a gym where if she just worked out she could tone her entire body so that she wouldn't need to go to her measure of stupidity), shallow sex... What really stood out was a line Malkovich said, something like this is a world of morons composing the masses and something something. I can't quite remember. It made me think of the class I'm taking in political philosophy, and the notion that the elite need the status quo to make everyone go along with whatever it is they feed the masses for their own personal gain. I definitely love a film with layers so that after just enjoying the film, you can truly appreciate what was going on after watching it. Sometimes a movie just needs to make you think.
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