Charlie Kaufman is trying to adapt Susan Orlean's book "The Orchard Thief", which is a half-truth about her real life, into a movie. The only problem is that her book doesn't contain the whole story, especially after the ending, and there is little to no rising action or exciting things to write about, which makes it hard for Charlie. Charlie and his brother Donald at the end find out what was missing from the book, and both get more than they bargained for.
This movie comes from one of the greatest screenwriters of our day, Mr. Kaufman who did Being John Malkovich, this and that are amongst the most original stories of our day. The thought process that went into intertwining the stories is amazing. Everything wraps together at the end in a way nobody expected, and it's quite thrilling and eye catching too.
Spike Jonze's direction is pretty good, especially when he speeds up the action showing day and night go by in seconds, with a fitting background. Nicholas Cage is perfect as always, and pulls off being twins who are exact opposites, he has to change his attitude every time the lines change. Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper go together well and the final scenes are led by them.
9/10 Starts off slow but quickly picks up, Cage's scenes put a smile on my face as I watched. Cooper and Streep's relationship was interesting. Nice camera work, magnificent screenplay.
This movie comes from one of the greatest screenwriters of our day, Mr. Kaufman who did Being John Malkovich, this and that are amongst the most original stories of our day. The thought process that went into intertwining the stories is amazing. Everything wraps together at the end in a way nobody expected, and it's quite thrilling and eye catching too.
Spike Jonze's direction is pretty good, especially when he speeds up the action showing day and night go by in seconds, with a fitting background. Nicholas Cage is perfect as always, and pulls off being twins who are exact opposites, he has to change his attitude every time the lines change. Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper go together well and the final scenes are led by them.
9/10 Starts off slow but quickly picks up, Cage's scenes put a smile on my face as I watched. Cooper and Streep's relationship was interesting. Nice camera work, magnificent screenplay.