Films: Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa explores meaning of life and identity

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated February 3 2016 - 10:08am, first published January 28 2016 - 12:03pm
Same again: Kate Winslet's Clementine Kruczynski is forever doomed to fall in love with Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) in <i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</i>. Photo: Supplied
Same again: Kate Winslet's Clementine Kruczynski is forever doomed to fall in love with Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) in <i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</i>. Photo: Supplied

"I kind of make it a point," says Charlie Kaufman​ diffidently, "not to explain why things are or what they mean." Over the years, he has pointedly not explained a lot of things: whether Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is telling us love is an illusion; who the twin brother he gives himself in Adaptation really is; whether the quiz show host in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a Russian spy or not. Right now, an intense German journalist has asked whether Anomalisa, his new film about a man who sees everyone around him as identical, is supposed to be a commentary on the state of America. Even Kaufman has to laugh at that one.

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