20 minutes into this movie I was wondering why this was animated. It wasn't bringing any value to the plot, or style at all. It was just animation replacing normal, easy to film life. I was going to knock this down a bit for this reason for sure. Then the film ended and I was totally wrong. In fact, by the end I was totally wrong about a lot going in. The details are a little dangerous to talk about with people who haven't seen it yet. I don't want to have you walk in with predisposed thought. So if you haven't seen it yet, go do yourself a favor and let me know what you thought afterwards. I loved it in the end. SPOILERS BELOW If you've seen it and don't get my love of this, here I go. This film slowly seeds his mental illness perfectly. I didn't even think about it until over halfway in, but by then it all looks so obvious. He's taking pills at the start. Everyone is voiced the same at the start. Everyone has the same face at the start. Early on, you simply think it is a style choice. But when you get a unique face and voice to show up, suddenly the rest stands out even stronger. Now you're learning what it is like to be in his shoes. The mental illness slowly growing keeps you from fixing the problem. If one day you woke up and you were colorblind, you'd freak out. If over a few years you slowly went colorblind, would you notice?

I'd heard good things about this, but didn't like it. Is just a middle age man that's just bored of his life, don't really love his wife, his family, and don't care or feel nothing for anything or anybody and found someone different (a real voice) and has an affair with her, and then realise just after he used her that she is like everything else.

After reading some articles, it seems that the movie is based on the Fregoli delusion, but I thought it could be given a much wider meaning in relation to mental health in general. 
Michael is supposedly the master of communication, he even writes books about it, yet he seems to be constantly running away from human interactions. Doing the same things, meeting the same people, having the same small talk… everyone looks and sounds the same, like a puppet. Even when he happens to [spoiler]find someone who feels “different”, it won’t take long before they end up “changing”. That’s what Michael has kept blaming his former lovers and current wife for, even though it’s not hard to figure out that he is just a narcissistic self-indulgent asshole. Lisa is just one more puppet, not that different from the Japanese doll he buys at the store (the two happen to have the same voice and scars on their face).[/spoiler] That made me think about how mental illness and depression can change your perception of the world, and how that can end up hurting everyone around you. Interpretations aside, the movie makes creative use of the stop-motion medium to paint the subtle portrait of a puppet that looks more human than live-action actors. Slow-paced and mostly inconsequential, but still surprisingly compelling.

Very beautiful stop motion movie.

Pretty good portrayal of the mental disability known as the Fregoli delusion, but it could’ve used some more Charlie Kaufman. By his standards this is almost a mundane film, I wanted something slightly more bold and memorable. Still a lot of interesting, unique artistic choices that make this deserving of a recommendation (e.g. the singular male voice feels like a very intuitive choice), but it’s not my favourite project of his. Loved the cinematography, score and awkward tone, however the animation and design of the puppets are a little too off-putting for my taste. It sits between this awkward place of realism and surrealism, which fits with the theme of the film, but I think there are more appealing ways of portraying that visually. 6.5/10