Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
Directed by Michel Gondry
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
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This directionless fantasy, essentially a two-hander for an overtaxed Dano and Radcliffe, marks the feature debut of music video directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (DJ Snake and Lil Jon's chaotic "Turn Down for What"), who cite as their inspirations such music-video-to-legit-cinema crossovers as Spike Jonze (Her, Adaptation) and Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?).
French director Michel Gondry , on the other hand, is known for the endlessly creative visual style of his films, which include “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “The Science of Sleep.”
The director gave whimsy a good name in offerings like “Be Kind Rewind” and “The Science of Sleep,” and as if acknowledging his shortcomings, he includes examples of his own fractured-English gaffes, and even audio of him interrupting Chomsky’s perfectly sane criticism of the French government.
The idea of ideas is very much at the core of Gondry's 2006 film "The Science of Sleep," with Gael García Bernal as a man who loses sight of the line between daydreams and reality, and the seminal 2004 "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," which examines the implications of a world where disturbing memories can be erased.
Michel Gondry—known for such whimsical fantasies as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Science of Sleep (2006), and Be Kind Rewind (2008)—shot two searching interviews with linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky in 2010, and though the filmmaker is no match for him intellectually, Gondry contributes a powerful visual response by pairing their audio track with wildly imaginative animation sequences that illustrate and sometimes reflect on Chomsky's ideas.
Por outro lado, a linguista aponta os riscos inerentes a cada modo diferente de abordar a comunicação, salientando, por exemplo, como a utilização do mahjong pelos chineses pode criar uma lógica de confronto onde deveria existir a colaboração e também como termos similares podem provocar interpretações diversas segundo o contexto do tradutor, como as palavras “arma” e “ferramenta” (aliás, se este aspecto de A Chegada despertar seu interesse, assista ao documentário Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?).