Review of Adaptation. (2002) by Nick P — 06 Apr 2015

Charlie Kaufman: [voiceover] Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off, I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more, improve myself. What if I learned Russian or something? Or took up an instrument? I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that? Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's gonna change that.

Una genialidad en cuanto al guión. No te deja de sorprender durante toda la duración de la película. Es como una película de acción y el equivalente de las explosiones es el ingenio de la historia. Es un buen ejemplo de como una historia y un guión sólido pueden elevar cualquier película a una obra maestra. Nicolas Cage es un gran actor y ha demostrado que puede manejar cualquier papel de manera magistral y acá donde actúa dos papeles simultáneamente interpretando a dos hermanos y marca la diferencia solo con su lenguaje corporal y que decir de Meryl Streep que ya es un ícono en el mundo del cine y la revelación fue Chris Cooper como Laroche, sin duda el personaje más interesante y enigmático. Cualquier fanático del cine o persona que desee incursionar en este mundo debería verla.