In Thursday’s class (4/1/10) we watched a movie called Adaption. The overall movie was weird. This film is a post-modern film. It doubts everything that is modern.

The beginning of the movie starts off with the character speaking to himself about himself. While he is speaking all that can be seen is a black screen. By having the black screen, the audience can focus more on the character and what he is saying rather than what he is doing. The character continues to talk about himself and doubts himself like post-modern films. They way he speaks about himself sets of tone of depression. Not only does he doubt himself but he also doubts modern ideas. For example, he wanted to do a movie on flowers, just a simple flower movie. Who else in the world wants to do a movie about flowers unless it’s on the discovery channel or a discovery movie.

In this movie, there are a lot of back flashes and forward flashes of what’s going on. The movie jumps from one scene to the next. The movie just like all of our other movies focuses on either movies or the movie making business. This movie in particular is about writers and trying to write movies about something that can be significant or insignificant as a flower. Throughout the movie, it is obvious to see the change in the characters. One character was a magnificent writer who was uptight and could have just about anything she wanted, but could not find true happiness and her passion. Throughout the movie, she meets someone who is passionate about different things but cannot find the commitment in one thing. After meeting him, she turns into a different person. She is care free and finds happiness with him but is hurting herself. But while with him, she is doing drugs so the question is, is it the drugs that made her happy or the man? Also the main character, he is a looser and has low self-esteem. He talks about himself and creates a crazy like atmosphere. He is a shy character, he can’t talk to women without sweating, he can’t say what’s really on his mind, and he is not very social. At the end of the movie, he finds his courage to talk to the woman he loved and told her that he loved her. Even though he did that, he still has this looser like character.

In the movie the main character has a twin brother who is out-going and basically the opposite of him. However, he is not as good of a writer like his twin, the main character. So this brother as a character in the movie is sort of his alter ego but also a constant reminder of not to take things over board.