Adaptation.

No doubt a hard one to pin down or put into words. All I can say is that I thought it was brilliantly insightful despite not caring much for the ending.

I haven't fully comprehended everything in the movie but there's one thing I'm absolutely sure of: Charlie Kaufman is a genius in terms of screenwriting. And even if right now I can't still understand how he does what he does or deepen myself in the subtext, that's not a flaw, but rather a quality. It's that kind of movie that you watch multiple times and it never ceases to amaze you, just like his previous movie, ''Being John Malkovich'' (one which I held high as ''the weirdest wildest movie I've seen''). A 9,35 out of 10 from me. Oh, and Nicolas Cage playing two characters was goddamn funny :))

I'm the kind of guy that can sit through most movies and enjoy them well most of to time. This film, however, I just don't get it. I'm still not sure if the brother was actually the brother or a figment of his imagination. In the beginning it seems like Mr. Cage is delusional. Then it switches to scenes that show the brother is indeed a real person. Then back again. Then at the end, apparently he is real. Who knows? I like a film to be at least somewhat linear. When some director decides to throw something in to confuse the audience, well, guess what? They are confused. And probably disappointed. I did like the individual performances, but as a story, well, kind of a mess as far as I'm concerned.

Question: When does one come to the realization that a movie is desparately shaping up to be ONE HUGE BOREFEST? Answer: When one begins FAST FORWARDING thru the Dvd just 30 minutes into said movie. Well, I finally found a movie WORSE than Being John Malkovich, and its Adaptation. This stuff must appeal to the lonely losers and schmoes of the world. If this is "high art", I'll take Armageddon type flicks ANYDAY. Score: 1 (AWEFUL) Btw, the Dvd transfer is as rotten as the flick.

I went to see Adaptation with high hopes. They were all dashed. About 40 minutes in, the Charlie Kaufman character describes his screenplay as self-indulgent, narcissistic, solipsistic and pathetic, which sums up my feelings about the film pretty neatly. But although the film itself is bad enough, the ending is worse. The only worthwhile moral I could draw from this vastly over-blown effort (it lasts almost two hours) is Don't Ride in a Car Without Wearing a Seatbelt. As a road safety film, it's first rate. Otherwise, it's well worth steering clear off.

This self-portrait and self-indulgence of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman supplies a unique format, a film about screenwriting--while numerous films about film directors are out there, this might be the first and only film about a screenwriter. Taking persons who exist in the real world, including Kaufman himself as a protagonist, into a fictitious setting, Kaufman blurs the line between fiction and reality; at the same time, it may be a token of friendships from him to these persons. Unfortunately, the main arguments, writer's block and sexual depression, are highly cliched and cancel the brilliance of the distinctive setting. The main characters are lovable and memorable. Nicholas Cage does a great job to differentiate two twin brothers, Charlie and Donald Kaufman, but the editing and the post-production could have made the double role look more natural. Like Being John Malkovich, this is Kaufman's work and the director Spike Jonze is again invisible.

This movie is a box of mirrors. One intends to further discover Charlie Kaufman's mind, and see a mirror, over a mirror, over a mirror, believing that as we go further through thoughts we are closer to Charlie, the writer and main character. But we don't. Even though, Kauffman doesn't even try to repeat himself, his writing Odyssey is so vastly represented as Nicholas Cage gives one of his uniquely good acting. The cast develops so naturally, Meryl Streep transmiting so good Sadness as Chris Cooper Pride, the screenplay doesn't. This travel that looks for the inner description of a troubled mind spins, although lacking a central structure of action and a knotted development; it goes on a festival of strange, interesting characters. The Writer's imagination, his intelligence becomes his ruin. If you want to see this movie, prepare your mind, adapt your Brain. "Adaptation" is a whimsical journey into an incredible mind.