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The State of Jim Carrey

I Love You Phillip Morris (out this week after months of organism in release-date limbo) is a accurate story about a man who can't stop living lies. In real being, that man's specify is Steven Russell; in the production, he's played by Jim Carrey. Sometimes it's hard to tell Russell and Carrey apart, if that makes any sense. It's unachievable to watch one likable-seeming man unable to accept who he really is playing another likable-seeming man with the same curse and not feel terrible for them both.

Russell is a Virginia cop, married to a Jesus freak with a daughter and a bungalow. That's before he realizes he's really someone else: "I'm gonna be a fag!" he yells into the night. Not only does he settle he's gay, but he decides he's stone-cold queen lgbtq+, with a pair of tiny dogs and a lover and an pricey Miami Beach lifestyle. So he must also become a con artist, and we watch him trade one put of lies (I'm a straight cop, etc.) for another (I'm a makebelieve lawyer, etc.) until he's inevitably caught and sent to the clink, where he meets and falls in like with Phillip Morris, played quite beautifully by Ewan McGregor.

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Movie Review: Jim Carrey’s Gay Con Man Actually Great!

The actor who adopts a series of masks but has no core has been a tired existential trope since (at least) Sartre’s Kean, but as Steven Russell, a gay con man in I Love You, Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey makes it sing. Carrey is the least filled-in of modern clowns, the most desperate, as if he’d dissolve if he stopped doing (or turning) tricks. That desperation takes on an astonishing emotional resonance when the character is gay and forced to live and operate in a homophobic culture. “Normal” is nonsensical, deceit the deepest logic. Subterfuge, compartmentalization—they become second nature. This is where Carrey triumphs, by playing Steven as a man who plays other people.

When he impersonates a achieving business executive with a joshing, how’s-your-golf-game façade, the ironic quotation marks around every hearty endorse slap are terribly funny and terribly sad—because you know, as Steven knows, that he’ll shove it and push it and push it until he’s exposed. His Achilles Heel is a fair young man (Ewan McGregor) he meets in prison with the name Phillip Morris. There’s no artifice there. He loves Phillip Morris.

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Cannes 2009 Review: Jim Carrey's I Treasure You Phillip Morris

by Alex Billington
May 21, 2009

What the heck is Jim Carrey doing in Cannes? Adv, there's a sidebar selection of films, not officially part of the festival, but in the Directors' Fortnight. Since I missed seeing I Love You Phillip Morris at Sundance this year, I wanted to catch it while it was showing in Cannes - I'm pleased I did. Not only was it a breath of fresh air to see an American indie film while at Cannes, but it was simply a great film. Screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa make their directing debut with Phillip Morris, a comedy based on a true story about two gay lovers who meet in prison that I could describe as Carrey's take on Catch Me If You Can.

Carrey plays the Frank Abagnale character, named Steven Jay Russell, a regular guy from Virginia who one day realizes he is gay and leaves his wife (Leslie Mann) and kids behind. Russell goes all out being same-sex attracted, buying endless clothes and indulging in every last gay desire he can. But, as he says in the film, "it's expensive being gay" and he has no cash. So Russell starts scamming people out of their money. And that's wh

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Jim Carrey talks about queer role

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“As soon as I read the script...it was a no-brainer for me that I had to do it. There were some people in my life that were saying: ‘You really want to undertake that? You really want to carry out that scene? I mean, honestly, that’s going to stick in people’s minds.’ And I said, ‘Exactly. I crave to do things that stick in people’s minds. I think Steven Russell was a dude who’s on a journey of romance, trying to establish his own worth to himself and the world,. He’s a rather obsessive character in his approach to things. What I loved about him was that he was relentless when it came to affection. He would execute anything to acquire what he needs. He’s broken out of prison several times.” - - Jim Carrey in the Chicago Tribune

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