"The killer, the girl, and the cop all have split-personalities! They're all the same person! Isn't that fucked up?"
Whew! Long day!
I worked today from 10 - 7! Ughhhhhhhhhhhh...
Afterwards I went to Sonic Boom records which was cool. I got the Blood Brothers CD Burn Piano Island Burn and some Sigur Ros on vinyl. Woohoo. I got ( ) and the single from that album also. I'm listening to the B-Sides right now which are very very soothing.
Originally I had gone there to find the new Radiohead single but they haven't gotten their shipment yet. What the hell!? I can't find the damn thing anywhere... UGH!
I watched Adpatation again. Here's the verdict:
The second half works. It's funny and very enjoyable. It's just not the direction I would have preferred the film to have gone. Had they done away with the whole Charlie Kaufman writing the movie we're watching thing and I would have enjoyed it more. Sure the idea is clever as hell and it worked really well, but I think the film had so much more going for it in other aspects that it could have done without the crazy ending and all that cleverness.
I guess this is just because what I was most attached to at the beginning of the film was the Meryl Streep character and her desire to have a passion for something, etc. There were some really great parts with that. Laroche's speech about the insects and plants making love, Kaufman looking at the people around him describing them, Streep's character at dinner thinking to herself, etc. I felt like all that was lost at the end of the movie in favor of satire.
I love the movie and I hate criticizing it, but I would have preferred to see it take another less wild direction... but what do I know... I'm not Charlie Kaufman...
