at least she was hot, I think

>>219792371
Maxine's motivations are, to me, less specifically interpretable and more contingent on your broad interpretation of what the film appears to be about. Is she some kind of repressed dyke who actually likes Cameron Diaz's character? Or is she strictly unscrupulous and selfish? It doesn't seem to be exactly either.

In film, there are internal and external characters, ones that are broadly representative of the internal experience of the author and, by extension, us as sympathetic audiences, and those that represent external figures that influence the experience of the author. Maxine is an other. The Cameron Diaz or John Cusack characters are both transparent and impotent. They want a lot, they are very clear about what they want, and they (mostly) try desperately and fail to achieve it. Maxine is the opposite.

Personally, I think the ambiguity of her motivations and general interiority are a comment, conscious or not of Kaufman's, on his perception of the shiksa girls he dates. He's an obsessive neurotic jew who worries about everything and can't stop telling people about it, and he's attracted to gentile women who are the opposite and he can't ever understand why they're actually like that or why they do the things they do. But, the ambiguity is leveraged, which is why it's such great characterisation.

>>219793882
I hate ai slop bros

>>219793713
She was average but she's a good actress and has an amazing voice.

>>219794756
I am going to kill you.

>>219793882
Maxine's the only one that doesn't go into Malkovich's head. I think that says everything.

>>219794965
yeah, that's true, like she's totally actively uninterested in that, good catch.

>>219794921
you mean kill me last?

>>219795013
You are a dead eyed savage shortcircuited by anything written in coherent English.

>>219792371
I had a crush on a girl in high school for several years until I watched this film with her and she insisted forever afterward that Keener's character did nothing wrong and isn't anything except an undeserving victim in this film
Like what the hell?

>>219794778
nah she was hot in a butch way

>>219792371
it's unknown if 1990s catherine keener is capable of love

>>219796390
watch it again, it's the voice just her character that's attractive

>>219796390
>the character that has literally nothing bad happen to her is a victim
huh

Women don't love the same way men do.

>>219792371
the movie was tranny propaganda before it was mainstream

>>219798084
But John Cusack successfully talks her down from trooning? You fucking niggers have to insert gender ideology into everything, you know you should be fucking raped and murdered you know that? I'm just kidding but I do fucking hate you for your bad faith takes

>>219794965
She was the only character who felt secure in her own body.

>>219798951
He just denies her access to the thing that made her think she was a woman and maxine