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Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Paigow, you're missing the point of the movie. Listen to Ebert explain (sorta): "And all the time, uncoiling beneath the surface of the film, is the audacious surprise of the last 20 minutes, in which--well, to say the movie's ending works on more than one level is not to imply it works on only two."

Adaptation stops being a quirky Charlie Kaufman film and starts being a formulaic Donald Kaufman movie because the screenplay has to follow its own loopy logic. Kaufman knows that the ending is hackneyed. He's announced what he thinks is hackneyed in the first third of the film So when you start to see cliches in the last third, you can either think, "Hey, this is getting cliched" or you can think, "Oh, I get it. It's supposed to be cliched."

I admired more than liked the ending, but the film is not pure dreck.

BTW, The Asian language channel in San Francisco KTSF has a show called Namaste-TV.


edited to add the part about Namaste-TV

Namaste, Jack.

Thank you. My inner film buff bows to the beauty and wisdom of your inner film buff.


Cheers!