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Feb 19, 2019JOSEPH SARDO rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Finally watched this Jim Carrey flick after knowing about it for a while. Learning about Andy Kaufman and see this sort of "odd version" of a rockstar sort of film; except the "rockstar" was Andy Kaufman, who tried his best to elude all possible categories, not even really wanting to be considered a comedian and using many strange (but sometimes funny) approaches towards comedy or shock value. I thought the ending and "moral" was very poignant, that no one (perhaps even himself) knew who he really was, or even if he was ever being serious. I'm glad such a depiction was shown to not glorify his odd behaviour, but show a very real repercussion of it. Him being stripped of being able to participate in his meditations with the group he was in was a powerful moment of that. And, finally, he had no answer to suffering. He had no real comedy, or way around, his cancer diagnosis. It was so real, and perhaps now the joke was on him. Reality always has a way of catching up to us. It seemed he tried, and did in some ways, make some peace with the last parts of his career and handing out milk and cookies and all that, but even that was a bit odd. God bless him for all his weirdness, his story is interesting. May he rest in peace.