Hello, my name is Justin the Cluhr. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to take a little tour of the disturbed mind because we're talking about the filmography of Charlie Kaufman.

And that's right. We're going to start at the end.

Do we give these movies thumbs up or thumbs down?

That's traditionally how we end the podcast, right?

Oh, and now we're in the middle.

Oh, no.

You're not supposed to start with the middle unless you want to create a suspenseful thing that we're going to get back to later and re-contextualized.

You know, Justin, I really loved Charlie Kaufman when I was a teenager.

I saw adaptation when I was 14, I think, totally blew my mind, loved him, wanted to be him,

wanted to think like this man.

I haven't spent a lot of time with Charlie Kaufman in the last 10 years. And if there's

ever anything that I really liked as a teen, I'm inclined to be skeptical. I still think he's good,

turns out. Well, I wrote a little paragraph here of my thoughts on Charlie Kaufman, and I will read

them verbatim. All of his work is a reflection of the frustrations we have when we become aware

of life and the powerlessness of humans and the futility of living, which is a reflection of the frustrations we have when we become aware of life and the powerlessness

of humans and the futility of living, which is a feeling that may last forever, but is particularly

powerful when you become a teenager, which is why teenagers always latch on to Charlie Kaufman's

work, because we were teenagers when we saw it. And for the first time,

we were seeing a filmmaker that was going, hey, you know, life is weird. It's all so miserable,

and you have no control over it. And you know, it's amazing. Watching these movies again this week,

I feel even more so that way. Now I'm older. I'm a senior citizen of 31 years old, and these issues seem all the more pressing to me now.

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