In the fantastically navel-gazing Adaptation, Cage plays the dual roles of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his inept brother, Donald. And if this act of cinematic introspection and cyclical filmmaking madness shows us anything, it's that Cage's potential can flourish when his anger transforms into anxiety and his madness into existential dread.
The film (written by Charlie Kaufman and "Donald Kaufman," who doesn't actually exist) fictionalizes the inner machinations of Kaufman's mind as he struggles to adapt the non-fiction book The Orchid Thief into a feature-length narrative film. Cage reaches new heights of performance here, descending into a meta-fictional wormhole that completely engulfs him, and us, as the tropes of Hollywood filmmaking are torn apart and put back together in an unforgettable third-act climax.
Charlie Kaufman's work often dances with the false realities of storytelling and the intertwining of fiction and non-fiction, and Nicolas Cage, a man often trapped between those two realms, was the perfect actor to bring Kaufman to life on the big screen. Critics thought so, too, as Adaptation currently sits with a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Link LonkOctober 27, 2020 at 12:02AM
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