Kate and I saw Adaptation last night. It has been a long time since I saw a movie that I could crawl inside of and forget about the world for a bit. It takes a storyteller that can win my trust for me to be able to crawl inside of a movie. Writer Charlie Kaufman won that trust. In spite of the insane twist and turns of the plot that were obviously the work of a desperate man trying to finish a screenplay, it held together. It was kind of like the virtual cameras of the matrix that held together even though they were whipping around the set at speeds that would have torn a real movie camera apart. Something stays true so that there is rope you can hang on to through the insanity that lets you keep your bearings. So, Tim, did ya like the movie or what? Yea. Great directing. It was laugh out loud. I loved it. I avoided seeing it for a time because I was so disappointed by the last movie that he wrote: Human Nature.
It has also been a while since I enjoyed Nicolas Cage so much. An actor impresses me when he becomes someone else in front of my eyes and he became this totally avoidant moody loser for this movie.
I wonder if this movie would only appeal to a certain kind of individual, an avoidant type personality like myself who has the exact same voices in my head that the main character does in this movie.
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