Genre: comedy-drama metafilm
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman, based on
Cast: Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton and Brian Cox
Music by: Carter Burwell
Duration: 114 minutes
Wikipedia: wiki about the movie
Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for "Adaptation" (2002) has it three ways. It is wickedly playful in its construction, it gets the story told, and it doubles back and kids itself. There is also the sense that to some degree it's true: that it records the torments of a screenwriter who doesn't know how the hell to write a movie about orchids. And it has the audacity to introduce characters we know are based on real people and has them do shocking things.
Even the DVD maintains the illusion of life colliding with art. The case contains a Columbia interoffice memo, seemingly included by accident, not even referring to this movie. And it is startling to see an ant crawling across the main menu until you get to the dialogue line, "I wish I were an ant."
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