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Has anyone seen Adaptation? Now that was a movie with meanings on several different levels.
No...I"ve never heard of it. ^.^ What's it about?
Well, most people disagree with me on what I think it is about. I watched it with an organization called the Ecocriticism Society and we analyzed it. There is so much going on in this movie it isn't even funny. It was released in 2002 and starred Nicolas Cage (his best performance in my opinion). It is considered to be an adaptation of a book, but it really isn't. It was entered in that category for the Academy Awards though. It was written by Charlie Kaufman, the same guy who wrote "Being John Malkovich."
This probably won't make since, because there is just too much to tell. Anyway, the movie is actually about Kaufman himself. He actually writes himself into his own movie. In the movie he has a twin brother named Donald. In the movie Charlie Kaufman is attempting to adapt a real book (that is why it is considered to be an adaptation, although the movie has nothing to do with the book itself) call "The Orchid Thief" but has considerable difficulty due to the fact that the book is about flowers. This is where the movies various themes diverge. So.....
For theme 1, in his attempt to write the movie, charlie writes himself into the movie (so in actuality the real Kaufman wrote a movie in which he himself wrote himself into a movie). It is an exploration of movie making.
For theme 1, Charlie's brother, Donald, tries to write his own movie. The movie that Donald writes is about a murderer and a detective, but he puts in the twist that they are the same person. Ironically at the end of the movie you find out that Charlie and Donald are the same person, so it ends up becoming impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. It is an exploration of change, what causes change, and so forth.
The last theme is related to the second, it deals with nature and cycles and evolution and interdependency and stuff.
Yeah
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