Any trademarks or pictures herein are not authorized by the trademark owners and do not in any way mean the work is sponsored by or associated with the trademark owners. All characters, places, businesses, and incidents are from the author’s imagination, or they are used fictitiously and are definitely fictionalized. All this from the adaptive skills of an orchid. Either way, hats off to Jonze and Kauffman for once again bringing us an audaciously unconventional idea and tearing down the box. A film about a real life struggle to adapt a book that doesnt have much suspense in it, and the peril of trying to work some fictional thriller plotlines in at the last minute. Unfortunately by the third act(when the movie goes from non fiction to fiction) Adaptation unravels and ends up gravely falling apart. Is this an incoherent parable on the parasitic relationship between writers and their subjects? The evolution from single cell organisms to paleolithic glee? Or a look at how everything seems to have a purpose in life? Somehow between the obscure Hollywood industry injokes, Silence of the Lambs references, and celebrity Boggle tournaments I missed something. In the film we go from early primordial man to Being John Malkovich's floor seven and a half.and somehow it all makes sense. Only thing is the main character in the film is doing the adapting, and writing himself into script. Sound confusing? Adaptation is the screen treatment of the best selling non fiction book The Orchid Thief.

From the primitive scribblings of early man to the manic late night scribblings of the neurotic Charlie Kauffman(played by Cage) What we have here is a film about orchid thieves, high society New York socialites, screenwriters, identical twins, crocodiles, narcotic rings, and internet porn.err, more aptly put: a movie about a guy writing a movie about a book inside of another movie. To the dawn of the universe, a zero in the fabric of time itself hurling toward the deep chasm of entropy. Not the beginning of the movie, but to the beginning of it all.

The film starts off appropriately enough inside Being John Malkovich(or more precisely on the set of Being John Malkovich when Malkovich is inside his own head) But this is no sequel.no no, much more than that. Yes folks, this one stars Nicholas Cage.and, Nicholas Cage. Three years after director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kauffman's brilliantly offbeat masterpiece Being John Malkovich, comes their latest stream of conscious head trip.

Sweet Victory by Angela Kay Austin