Adaptation

Continuing on from the other blog, this is another more obscure movie that I watched recently (well before trials)

Adaptation is about how Charlie Kaufmann who is affected by writer's block and is unable to come up with a new screenplay because the book that he is adapting has no plot. Meanwhile his brother, Donald, is having great success as a new screenwriter even though Charlie thinks all he writes is cliched crap. And if you've noticed, it actually is the same Charlie Kauffman who wrote Being John Malkovich. Like actually, the character and the real life person here are meant to be the same. The movie was also written by Charlie Kauffman and also directed by Spike Jonze who directed Being John.

I guess the first hour or so of this movie is really pretentious. There's first person voice over narration, self references (there is actually a scene where Charlie is at the set of Being John Malkovich) and also all the sort of stuff you associate with a film trying to be arty. If you get through this first hour, you will realize that the actual point was to make that hour as pretentious as possible. Then the movie gets more conventional I guess until the conclusion which is so cleverly done you probably have to sit there thinking about it for like 10 mins to realize the implications of it.

I think this film is a little harder to follow than Being John and a little harder to get into, but if you stick with it, I'm pretty sure it's worth it.