Being John Malkovich DECODED!!! aka being john malkuth
It's a story about reincarnation, and the Whiteman's sick needs to have everlasting life. Not able to obtain it on a spiritual level, they seek it on the physical level, earth. This would be the mundane effect, the metaphysical point this movie is spirit falling in love with matter, the fall of man. The movie opens with a puppet show. Making the point that you are being controlled, there is an energy that needs you to remain human. Also that this character in the movie is playing the masculine force [spirit] seeking to control matter. You see the puppet in the movie looking at a mirror; he breaks it with the glass. This is pointing out the illusion which he is trapped in and so on. This automatically lets us know in terms of the story that the puppeteer was going to have a "spiritual" experience because he was trying to bust through his illusion. Turns out he IS spirit and he was seeking a physical experience [True death, to be reborn, or lost in matter].
The two main characters, husband and wife, he's a puppeteer and she's has a house full of animals, both are actually playing the role of spirit who are infatuated with matter, him puppets, and her "beasts". When he's force to get job, in the elevator he has to get off at the 7-1/2 floor. A black woman show's him how to do this. Now, of course the black woman can get to the high levels he can't. He's on the 7 -1/2 not quite the "8" [escaping the 7 chakra prison]. We know you have 7 chakras, this tells us he not ready to move on or can't. The black women can who is wearing a purple coat [crown chakra]. He's interviewing for a company "Lester" which means "Less-Star". The lesser star is the sun. In the interview the boss, holds up the letter "R" and a random symbol and as the main character a question. This "R" stood for Ra, he is the sun, who dies and is reborn on earth every day. This is why this man turns out to be the guardian of the portal. It's a filing company; I took this to represent the subconscious mind, or the records of the many lifetimes, or the DNA.
Now, lets get down to why the named the movie "Being John Malkovich". First thing is this, the director and writer in interviews would talk about when he wrote this he had Malkovich in mind, Malkovich passed on it and it was a chore to get him interested in the movie but finally he said he would do it. He could have just as easily named the movie after any actor who fills the role. His name is also John, which is as you know John Doe, a prostitute's call there customers John's, they way he's going to be used as the puppet, the name suits him. Show's that the body or physical is nothing but a John. White boys think in ritual, they know certain energy use correctly can end with a predictable result. From Cabbala, the Sephiroth for earth is called "Malkuth" so you have a story about people who can't get the higher realms stuck in a pattern of reincarnation on the earth realm falling back to Malkuth or Malkovich. The higher realms representing the number 8 and the 7-1/2 floor has a gateway back to earth [not quite in, but not quite out].
In the office, the boss tells the husband [John Cusack] that he's age 105, 1+0+5=6, 6 is the number of man, [carbon is 6 on the table of elements, carbon beings]. Or look at the number itself "6" the point at he top is where you start and the circle at the bottom is where you are, spirit falling to earth or matter, now "9" which is completion, is where you are on earth and you transcending earth back to the sprit realm hence the circle now at the top. The boss also says he drinks nothing but carrot juice, rich in Vitamin A, which you also get from the sun again making this point, Keep the number 6 in mind, it came up a lot in this movie. He's in a restaurant with his boss, the camera cuts to clock; the minute hand is on "6" as the boss speaks. He also talks about himself saying line after line about his male sexual prowess, further more making the point that he's the masculine energy [sun]. Also we don't know yet in the movie he's talking about reincarnation or becoming the rising sun again, but he is.
Back at the office, the main character, the husband, tells his coworker, about being a puppeteer, it's great because you get to "control" someone, your in their skin, this is spirit talking about how great a life in matter really is or how he's developing a love affair with it. Later when he finds this portal, the clock says exactly 2:22, 2+2+2=6. When he first goes through, he is in the head of Malkovich, he's experiences matter. John is doing mundane shit, eating toast. Tells co worker how you get to be in the head of Malkovich for 15 minutes, 1+5=6. He's changed and ranting about how he feels "alive". This while he sits in front of a rainbow picture, this is of curse representing the chakras. When his girlfriend goes, John is in the shower, you hear her talking about how great it feels, just a shower and him toweling off. This is sprit experiencing matter, which is supposed to be fucked up, now made to feel great. She like her husband talks about this profound feeling they now have, they understand, they never will be the same. The whole shit turned around, you should feel this way if you a man having a spiritual experience, but now, spirit now having a physical experience have become the most profound thing, all backwards.
The second time his wife goes back, she is falling in love with matter; she is becoming addicted to it, like us. They decide to sell this service to people. The first man they send through goes in at 10:05 pm, again 1+5=6. This is symbolic of them sending spirit to a physical reality. Now he, his wife and coworker are talking about how much they are all in love with this thing they are "doing", again another reference to them falling in love with the illusion. As the movie moves on, him and his wife fall in love with the coworker where they both make their feelings known, The coworker says she wants the wife, BUT only in Malkovich, Later on as the movie goes on in this situation, the husband [feed up]locks the wife up in a cage, symbolic of spirit being locked down again, while he fools the coworker into seeing John while he's in Johns body, all symbolic of spirit enjoying flesh, the material world. He starts to control Malkovich, spirit now learning to work with matter, forgetting who he really is, blinded by this lust.
Side note: The monkey is in the cage with the wife, he has a flash back to his youth, when he and his parents were captured, and he get's inspired to untie her hands because he couldn't do it for his parents in his flash back, they all were captured and his hardships began. This is symbolic of him UNDERSTANDING the problem is matter and knowing as a monkey you should be free of it to truly be free. The director making the point once again, he conscious of the story he is telling. I now believe to make a movie in Hollywood this day, you must tell a hidden story to even seem competent and to be considered for anything relevant.
John is getting wise to the fact the he is being controlled, freaked out, and talks to his friend about what was happening, "something is controlling me", "something or someone is in my head", this is matter having a spiritual experience now, he says he MUST find out "what this is". He follows the coworker, [who is in a relationship with him because the wife portals to John when they have sex] and makes his way to where she is selling tickets to his portal. Which is a just a vagina to the physical realm, which they say at one point John "has a vagina". John as he's finding out what's really going on he has a hat with an apple on it. The apple is a representation of knowledge, Eve gave Adam the apple and he was conscious, Malkovich is becoming conscious of spirit now. By the way, they charged $200 bucks for this service, the 2= 1 spirit + 1 matter meets. John goes through his own portal. He sees every one looks just like him, they say nothing but his name, what he now sees is it's all a illusion, nothing is real but you, THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION, everything you see is you and comes from you, even what you so-called don't like or what you so-call enjoy, he is conscious now. When his 15 minutes are up he says these exact words… "That was no simulation [he seen spirit, the real world], I have been to the dark side, I have seen a world no man should see" [again no man should see]. "That portal is mine and it must be sealed forever for the love of god." Very heavy shit, He now understands what matter is, that it's bullshit, he telling spirit, this shit must end, seal the gateway.
When the coworker, finds out it was the husband and not the wife in Malkovich the last time they had sex, she doesn't' give a shit, spirit is not a man or a woman, it's androgynous. It's the same thing as far as she is concerned, this is why you can reincarnate as man or a woman in your next lifetime, we they same thing! She goes to see Malkovich knowing that the husband will be in him, John opens the door to give her a piece of his mind, his apt is "43" 4+3=7. If is now fully conscious, he is attached to the god head. The wife now looking for answers goes to Lester's house. She see now that the coworker doesn't love her, but loves MATTER. They talking in front of the "fire place" and he has a stuffed "hawk" on the table, both symbols of the sun. She asks all about Malkovich, which she is really asking about, is Malkuth. She tells him of how addicted to Malkuth she has become. The husband as John tells his coworker, it's all about becoming one with John, I know how to stay in him forever, think of it like an expensive suit, spirit now beginning to get stuck in matter. As he talks to her, he has her "red" lipstick all over his lips and on his face. It's the husband now in John in the root chakra. The coworker tells him "stay in him forever". He says, "I can use him to launch my "puppeteering" career.
Lester tells the wife, when Malkovich becomes 44, he will be ripe. 4+4=8 the symbol 8 turned on its side is infinity, or as above so below, where sprit and matter become one the two circles mix [spirit and matter in a infinite connection he's the sun so he needs to come in the 8]. He said if he misses this time, he will get diverted in to a baby, and become absorbed, in the brain of this person, a "prison", doomed or trapped in a baby brain. Aware, but not able to control or remain conscious of self. Kind like the state of black folks now, trapped and imprisoned in their baby brain.
John [no controlled by the husband] goes to his agent, and tells him he wants to now be a puppeteer, his name should now be synonymous with "Puppets'. A random guy talking about John in his new career is, really talking about the Husband [the spirit that animates John] says this: "he breaths life into inanimate objects, it's a godlike thing. Malkovich [Malkuth] shows us a reflection of ourselves, our frailties, and our desperate humanity". As spirit, who fell in love with matter, John is creative, adding art to the world, showing how he gives life to matter in the form of controlling the puppets [like black folk until we got addicted]. Lester [Lees-Star] calls him phone and says get out, WE want the vessel, the sun wants the body, for it to live, it needs to RULE matter ignorance with reign supreme. You will work, picnic, define your life and movement by the sun and the time it defines for you, if it doesn't shine, you don't have a good day. This a true slave master who dictates how you plan your life day to day as a mere human. It wants the vessel and you it!
They kidnap the coworker, the wife with Lester, the wife and coworker go through the portal, this is interesting, they go through the subconscious mind of Malkovich, the wife chasing the coworker trying to kill her. Technically all they are now in Malkovich, the coworker, wife and husband who I believe they said he was in him for "8" months at that point. They showed you exactly 6 events in the life of John as they chased each other. All 6 were fucked up events; here they show you how it's not a good thing to be human. I thought that was very interesting, they showed you what you have become, one scene the show John sniffing women's panties in a random bathroom. When the husband finally leaves John because of the pressure, but says he will go back, Lester and his crew go through the portal, have new life as the sun in the physical world. The coworker, represent so great mother goddess; she became pregnant who the baby who turned out to be the wife's when you was in John. Less-Star tells the wife not to kill her; she's carting the next vessel, Johns "Seed". Everything revolved around her and their love for her. The husband left the body because of her and vowed to go back to be with her.
The husband goes back through but the portal now gets stuck as the child of John, he gets the baby brain, spirit stuck and now unconscious of it self. He looks at the wife and coworker raising the baby that his is imprisoned in; he has now become the true puppet. he gets lost in the physical, and can't remember what he is as spirit.
On the mundane level, you have a story about how great it is for you to be human, Humanity is powerful and not to be played with, they joy of be able to come back and never get old, another grand mind control flick decoded.
