LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this raw, deeply unsettling, darkly comic film...especially how this wild, inside-out parable about identity, self-awareness, longing to belong, and self-abandonment, echoes those central themes of my debut memoir "Killing Justice" ... Schimberg at a certain point begins to bring the playful meta-threads the script has been weaving together on identity, anxiety, and the literal and figurative masks we wear to protect ourselves, and if such protection is often the right course of action, which are also central themes of "Killing Justice"...it also has the surreal energy of a Charlie Kaufman picture...A Different Man is a major work—even as it shapeshifts from Cronenberg to Kaurismäki, Schimberg never loses sight of his central questions...& A Different Man is a fascinating exploration of humanity...With his keen ability for oddball world-building (and with further help from Umberto Smerilli’s stunning musical score), Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” presents a darkly funny and sometimes upsetting reflection of our self-centered existence...The film has elements of magical realism sprinkled throughout, but it’s the material that is firmly based in reality that hits the hardest and makes the most resonant points about the perils of transforming oneself...A Different Man is a bold, unsettling psychological drama, showing Sebastian Stan at his most chaotically unhinged...Kafka-by-way-of-Kaufman... Schimberg is proving to be one of the great satirists working today. A high-wire marvel of hard questions hilariously siphoned through elliptical lunacy... Sebastian Stan has never been better...an unflinching, unforgiving examination of the masks we wear and whether we can truly change our natures...It’s a dark, hilarious, and deeply unsettling portrait of a disfigured man that’s also an unflinching mirror of a looks-focused industry...A Different Man is a worthy psychological thriller that explores some deep questions while it makes us laugh out loud...A movie that’s about—and asks its lead to literally and figuratively wear—masks, A Different Man is a multifaceted meta mind-melter...Combines body horror with a Shakespearean-level of ironic romantic tragedy to tell a nightmarish story about one man’s journey to reshape – and ultimately undo – himself...a funny, thought-provoking existential comedy that might draw comparisons to Charlie Kaufman’s mind-bending, melancholy work...Schimberg creates a house of mirrors so brilliant and complex that it becomes impossible to match any of his characters to their own reflections, and absolutely useless to reduce the movie around them to the stuff of moral instruction...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9CmC5Rmsdw
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