The answer according to Carrey? Stop striving and just be. This occupying of ‘The Great Beyond’, like Jim and like Andy, sets up the concepts of individuality, ego and being complete as figurative finish lines which you will never reach, and will keep you feeling unfulfilled and unsated as long as you continue to strive for them.
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Kaufmann seemingly had no sense of this, often blurring the lines of where his own performance began and ended. They’re all abstract concepts which are keeping you boxed within this avatar that you have created for yourself: a ridged representation of the way you want to be perceived by others. He discovered that none of this matters: your individuality, your struggle, your ego. And an enlightening watch it is.Ĭarrey justifies his discovery because he could so easily ‘become’ Kaufmann and lose himself in the process.
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It was in the Netflix documentary Jim And Andy: The Great Beyond that Carrey’s existential discovery was brought to light. During filming, he refused to acknowledge that he was actually Jim Carrey, spent time in character with those nearest and dearest to Andy and openly admits that Kaufmann took full control of him. This is a discovery which came about whilst filming Milos Forman’s Man On The Moon, the Andy Kaufmann biopic that famously saw Carrey “lose himself” in the avant-garde comedian’s persona whilst going full-on method.