Review of Anomalisa (2015) by Jeremiah L — 05 Jul 2016

The film is taking a hit rating wise since I really have no sympathy for the main character whatsoever but I must say that stop motion films never cease to amaze. You have to really love and believe in something to put that much time and effort into it.

I've never seen Lost in Translation before but this film matches up with the idea I have of that film if that makes sense. In this film we follow Michael Stone, a well known author in business circles in town to speak at a conference. Everyone looks and sounds the same to him now (and I mean that literally, everyone aside from Michael is voiced by the same actor and everyone has the same face). He's unraveling, thinking about an old girlfriend, how things are with his wife and young son, and all that sort of middle aged man crisis that we've seen in film before.

Then, of course, he meets a girl. The girl is awkward and cute and she doesn't look or sound like everyone else! Literally and otherwise.

I liked the animation more than I liked the story and that's really about all I can say about it.