An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Background Driving (2000)
Lance Bangs interviews one of the extras whose job is to drive their car in the background of scenes in 'Being John Malkovich'.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
A ragged collection of "special features" offered upon A Universal DVD of the estimable Spike Jonze-directed work BEING JOHN MALKOVICH includes this very short item, a piece that is simplistic to an extreme, being merely dark hour footage of a young extra player whose sole assigned task is to drive her automobile slowly along what allegedly is a portion of the New Jersey Turnpike as a scene is being shot during the original production. Speaking to a videotape wielding passenger, the woman chatters aimlessly, for the most part concerning another extra for whom she has developed some degree of distaste, and that is all that we see and hear. Without doubt, the young woman will feel delight at watching herself in action, but for others one viewing will be quite enough.