Welcome to Super Serious Filmfest, our theme series of movie reviews.

This season covers the best and the worst of Nick Cage, the summer and winter of his career.

And what we're calling, Season of the cage.

So we watched adaptation.

What did you think of this movie?

This, to my mind, is Nick Cage's best film.

I agree with you like this is just really great work and the brilliant thing is there's really no difference between Donald and Charlie other than how they

perceive themselves and their successes. One is just ate up by what I've come to

known as the fraud complex, the fact that he is actually the worst human being alive and he's gotten some kind of a claim,

or he has some kind of gift that is unearned and the praise is all unwarranted and if everyone just can can

see him accurately if he doesn't keep up this this charade this if he doesn't hide from the

world he's gonna be he going to be exposed and I mean

that's just where the brilliance of the movie begins right it's one of the most

accurate representations of what the creative process feels to me.

This movie feels like a movie split into two halves

in the same way that this character of Charlie Kaufman is.

Yeah.

Because I do think there's a lot of Donald and Charlie

probably in the real human being Charlie Kaufman. You are aware that

Donald is a as a construct. He's not a real job. I wasn't aware of that during the live watch yeah

I didn't know anything because I came into this I'd never seen this movie before yeah

but yeah I didn't know anything except for it was about writing a screenplay that's literally the only thing I knew about it.

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