Adaptation.

i love the nonlinear structure and how the creative process is depicted, it’s painfully relatable and real
it breaks all the rules to show that you can break them and still tell such a profound story
i was touched by so many scenes in this, the acting and writing was captivating

don’t remember watching

An original film about a screenwriter’s hardships while writing an adaptation of a book about orchids. Nicolas Cage is hilarious and deep and the rest of the cast are just as good. The movie is insane and cleverly written as well. I give this film 5 Cages out of 5.

THE MOST META EVER🤯🤯🤯🤯. But for real though how do you even do that is this real I’m so gagged that was so good. Glad I watched being John malkovich a while ago, which wasn’t super necessary to understand the plot but it definitely added to appreciating the meta-ness of it all. (Saying meta makes me sound like such a jerkoff but I really don’t know how else to describe it 😭😭). Really great performances from everyone in this, nic cage of course, and crazy crazy good script. Brian cox is really so scary I love him. Uhg it’s all just so good. I know Charlie Kaufman played fucking crazy elaborate make believe as a kid. And the way half of the stuff like he’s making fun of Donald for using to make his screen play, are used in this movie too like the trick photography thing and merging genres too, the meta has layers there’slayerstothisshit 🤯🤯🤯. This is just so weird and the non linear back and forth shit I love and I just love all of it. In the least corny and pretentious way, because i truly don’t know THAT much about movies at all really, i feel like this was a movie for people who love movies and all the shit that goes into making them. Cause I’d watch that shit as a movie if it was just exactly how this guys writing process went honestly but then it somehow turns into a thriller??? And it’s also exploring really complex emotional themes?? What more could I want. Makes me want to read the book to see if it’s any good. I’ve been known to enjoy a book or movie that doesn’t have much happening plot wise so.

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6.7

If there was an award for Nicolas Cages’s presence in a movie, this film would receive two of these awards.