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7.9.04

it's okay when charlie kaufman goes all meta, because he hates himself for it. and besides, it's cute. And it's uber-meta, because he isn't just putting himself in the story and being a snarky ass and thinking he's the best for it - he's saying, there he is on the screen, saying how awful and dumb it is to be putting himself in the movie and how he shouldn't be doing this (or have done this) and it's awful when authors do that. i try to make a rule of it to not like movies about making movies, or books about writing books, or ... i think it shows ... sort of ... i mean if you're going to be creative enough to write a book, you might want to be creative enough to come up with something to put in it other than Me Me Me. i think the area between autobiography and utter fiction is mostly pitfall. Almost entirely pitfall. because it's boring. there's no subject matter, just a set of mirrors of people all doing the same thing. but kaufman points his movie at the mirrors, instead of the stupid people in them ... i'm not making any sense. am i?

watched Adaptation. um. i think i really liked it. i found myself wondering if nicholas cage had gotten fake lips or something - which was distracting for a minute - and then i decided yes, of course, they do that all the time - look at kidman's nose, for heavens' sake - and then it was just sort of intermittently distracting when it was a shot from a particular angle - but i really liked it. i'm looking at the pictures of kaufman here and i think they made cage look like kaufman thinks he looks - but not much like how kaufman looks really. i keep thinking i'd really like Eternal Sunshine but somehow haven't got around to it yet. There are maybe a lot of movies like that. why isn't the film industry letting me catch up? oh, right, because i never watch any movies, right. Okay then.

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