Review of Anomalisa

Anomalisa (2015)
7/10
Very realistic, very depressing movie
24 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This is one confusing movie. You do not know what these characters in the movie are? Are they puppets? Are they they animations? Are they real human beings acting like puppets? Is the main character gay because his love interests seem to be men when he talks on the phone to them? Does everybody look the same because they were too lazy to create different types or is it just the main character who sees everybody as the same?.

We follow a motivational speaker on his way from the airport into his luxury hotel and with him experience what the fate of every business traveler is. Subjected to the same talk by taxi drivers, hotel personal and the crushing loneliness in a strange town resulting in having sex with a total stranger, believing for a second that the physical closeness brought real intimacy.

I went to an afternoon showing and there were children in the audience. The characters in the movie, though animations ,look anatomically very real and they perform real sex acts including oral sex. I heard the kids gasping watching the guy go down on the woman and I assume that the adults with these kids did not a lot of research before taking their kids into this R rated movie. I do not see any harm in children seeing nudity, but I think that smaller kids are too young to watch oral sex and explicit sex acts. Oh well, I am probably naive, they all get in from the Inernet anyway nowadays. I thought the movie was a very realistic, i.e. very depressive picture of real life and I walked out of if with a sense of hopelessness.
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