Emotionally anesthetized and existentially muted, a middle-aged man wanders through the liminal space of a hotel, depressed, quietly awkward, and faintly horny. Charlie Kaufman knows how to make an existential crisis movie with unsettling humor and intimacy, conveying it in a well-crafted world of stop-motion animation, one that feels a little too close to home.
Emotionally anesthetized and existentially muted, a middle-aged man wanders through the liminal space of a hotel, depressed, quietly awkward, and faintly horny. Charlie Kaufman knows how to make an existential crisis movie with unsettling humor and intimacy, conveying it in a well-crafted world of stop-motion animation, one that feels a little too close to home.
