Phoenix appeared on Letterman’s Late Show in February 2009 behind dark sunglasses and bushy beard, he mumbled. But, long before that perfect ending left my screen, I knew which side of that divide I would fall on. A clean-shaven Joaquin Phoenix dressed in a suit and tie appeared on David. His face and neck are covered in a thick beard. Hes a closed system of trauma, nervous system flooded by flashbacks from combat experience and an abusive childhood. His flesh is so heavy and thick his emotions cant reach the surface. Documents Joaquin Phoenixs transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lumbering, slow-moving giant. With Joaquin Phoenix, Antony Langdon, Carey Perloff, Larry McHale. I can honestly see why some people would hate this movie, and the entire idea behind it. Im Still Here: Directed by Casey Affleck. I'm Still Here is audacious, ridiculous, and certainly divisive. But how can I not rate a movie highly that made me laugh so much, while also making me feel sadness, disgust, pity, incredulity, anger, hope, embarrassment, and ten other things? This experiment was a smashing success, in my opinion, and something truly unique that I'll be thinking about for a long time. What I got instead was one of the best movies I've seen this year. When I first heard about it, it sounded like a vanity project that would be an amusing oddity, at best. I was beyond impressed by what Phoenix and Casey Affleck did with this. Every uncomfortable, embarrassed and incredulous reaction of his friends and the people he meets just drew me deeper into the world of this bizarre man. It feels real, even when you know it's not. He genuinely makes the character seem crazy enough to believe that his music is actually good and that the absurd things that he's saying have meaning. It's not by accident that so many people thought this movie was a genuine documentary about Phoenix's spiraling life. This is my absolute favorite movie by him, and my favorite "character" that he's played. I thought that the performance by Phoenix was great. It's like watching the worst person in the world and wondering what insanity they're going to race towards next. The way he berates his assistants, tries to get a friend in recovery to take drugs, constantly surrenders to his own paranoia and delusions, and takes narcissism and selfishness to the furthest excesses, it's all just unbelievably compelling. Even though you can't help but feel painfully embarrassed for the character. ![]() Every time he steps up onto a stage to rap, it's a hilarious train wreck. Joaquin plays a deranged, drug-using, prostitute-frequenting, delusional, destructive, bizzaro-version of himself, and I just can't look away. ![]() And the entire mockumentary is like that, to varying degrees. Watching Joaquin Phoenix bouncing around like a gibbering idiot and rapping in front of Edward James Olmos (rap name: EJO), while a nonsensical voice-over of Olmos rambles about raindrops and mountains and inner 's just insane. This has to be one of the most weird and surreal movies that I've ever seen.
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