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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 2461056, member: 2504"] Talk about quality mind bending movies, and you are bound to get around to Charlie Kaufman. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation are both excellent and surreal experiences. He also wrote the screenplay for Being John Malkovich, which is also a quality film and another rather wacked out experience. Of course, Adaptation is the film adaptation of Susan Orleans book “The Orchid Thief”, thought by some to be an unfilmable book until Kaufman (and director Spike Jonze) got their hands on it. Kaufman literally puts a version of himself (and a nonexistent identical twin brother) into the movie, showing a version of himself going through the anguish of trying to write a screenplay about this unfilmable book. And in the process, he actually and oddly gives you a good idea of what the book is about. I find it to be a wildly brilliant exercise that will leave you thinking about it for some time to come. [/QUOTE]