I was anticipating its own moves even before the script called your attention to it - the level of self-referentialism almost forbids you from making any other kind of attachment to the movie but a purely intellectual one.īeing John Malkovich, the last film by the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman duo, was also a colossal mindfuck, but it was one of a different sort: its discursions on the nature of identity had a depth and feeling to them that this movie didn't. You cared about the characters in that film, and you wanted to see how things ended up - because, unlike Adaptation, the movie allowed you to lose yourself in the cinematic experience as opposed to making you self-conscious and feel complicit in the act of watching an artificial creation adapted, more-or-less, from a real-life book.Īdaptation shreds the wall between truth and fiction. ![]() ![]() #Geppetto pinocchio lie dirty cartoon gay sex funny movie
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