Beyond the ‘Empathy Machine’ and Being John Malkovich.
Disclaimer: BIG SPOILERS if you have not watched the 30 year old film Being John Malkovich.
‘Ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can’ Is the beginning of the fictional advertisement placed by the tragic Craig Swatz (John Cuzak) and the unattainable Maxine (Catherine Keener) in writer Charlie Kaufman’s debut feature Being John Malkovich (1999, Dir. Spike Jonze).