Anomalisa

Incredibly downbeat, but that's Kaufman for ya. Here he has seriously matured as a director, and is actually able to find the moments of humor that he writes for himself, unlike Synecdoche which was one brilliant hopelessly bleak mess. It also portrays depression in a way so ingenious that you just kind of snap when you see it and say "that's it!". It also beautifully shows how a human's personal problems have ramifications on other people, even when the person suffering has no ill will. It's frequently very funny and very sad, and Lisa's song along with a few other moments had me crying (hard thing to do, I unfortunately am just not really a cryer). Performances are excellent, the music is beautiful, and the stop motion, while a bit of a hindrance in general given that it's a bit harder to take puppets seriously than people, was extremely well done and the aforementioned portrayal of depression through visualization made up for that. Once again I am just seriously impressed with Kaufman's work, but while it's unmistakably his work, I miss some of the bonkers humor of his other movies (the golf cart sequence was brilliant though).
My only problem with the movie is that it just is too downbeat for me, which is just a personal problem. Other than that, it's excellent. Anybody else see it? Thoughts?

Absolutely loathed every second of Synecdoche but adored Anomalisa. What a touchingly beautiful and sad film.