play your script

Lewis 2022-04-23 07:01:29

This is a pseudo-artistic film that seems to be literary but actually tests the audience's IQ. The story is told throughout the film, and the screenwriter makes the characters in the play constantly change their roles.

From the beginning, we see the protagonist as a screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, racking his brains to adapt a novel that a female writer has just finished. With the development of the plot and the appearance of his twin brother Donald Kaufman, the audience will find it as if the story is actually about Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter who is describing a pair of brothers named Charlie and Donald Kaufman. , is the story of how a woman writer writes a book. But the story continued, and the plot became that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman was writing a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman, writing a screenwriter named Charlie and Donald Kaufman brothers, how to write a female writer How to write a book story. . . This kind of loop-by-loop plot continues to develop. When the film ends, the audience realizes that all the plot development in the original story is the screenwriter's use of this routine layer by layer. However, looking back and looking at the screenwriters of this film, it turned out to be Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman. . . Confused?

Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter genius, not only created a twin brother with completely opposite personalities for himself in the play, but also brought this character to real life. The audience has been thoroughly entertained from the play to the outside of the play.

2002 Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay.

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  • Lisa 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    In fact, discussing what is real and what is fiction in the movie is a joke in my opinion, because there is no reality in the movie. In this film, the younger brother is actually an incarnation of "Hollywood", a split personality that Charlie wants to abandon, and there is no real or fictional turning point in the whole film, just like the real Charlie's work eternal sunshine, To enjoy this confusion is to criticize itself

  • Delmer 2022-03-21 09:01:28

    Don't know whether to call it a good or a bad movie. Meta-narrative mixes the process of adapting the script, the original novel and the fabricated plot, and since he shows his incompetence and helplessness to the audience, the final compromise seems understandable and a good one. , or a satire on the way Hollywood works. Everything seems real. At least it's novel.

Adaptation. quotes

  • Donald Kaufman: [handing Charlie his finished script] So, would you show your agent? It's called "The Three".

  • Charlie Kaufman: I've written myself into my screenplay.

    Donald Kaufman: That's kind of weird, huh?