(August 19, 2022 at 12:06 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: And perhaps most importantly, I couldn't buy the main premise which would be that a guy is trying to escape the afterlife to work his dream job on Earth that he finally got. I mean, it is hard to believe that if someone was dead and discovered that there is a (nice?) afterlife they would want to go back to work no matter what the job was. Seriously, why bother?
And I gave up when the main character turned into a cat. But should I continue?
It's not that hard to believe if he still had emotional ties to life on Earth. He still has family, friends, Hell, he still has a desire to make something of his life on Earth beyond being a seemingly mediocre music teacher with a stillborn career in two disparate genres.
And, trust me, there's more to the movie after Joe's soul possesses the cat's body (and 22 possesses Joe's body.)
It's a great movie once you get past the dualism inherent in the premise. Ideally by remembering that one of the director's previous three movies were about homunculi who were in charge of a little girl's emotions, and that his first one involved monsters who powered their cities with the screams of children.
And, on the off chance that the OP's still reading this, the Maurice Moss connection goes deeper than the main character's passing resemblance to Richard Ayoade (Which I don't really see):
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
