Adaptation.

a fantastic adaptation of The Orchid Thief, STORY, and Charlie Kaufman’s brain. If you haven’t read those two books, yourself, I highly recommend looking into them; The extra context makes this already layered film feel even bigger This is one of the most inspiring movies —for all the nervous wrecks out here — but it is so perfectly made that I’ve felt almost narcissistic, for relating to and connecting with it as much as I have, all these years Some young filmmakers have dreams of making the next 2001, I dream of making a metafiction film adaptation of Charlie Kaufman’s book ‘AntKind’ (which will naturally be a Matrix-Resurrection-style, snark-sequel, to this) — and including a scene, where I miserably masturbate to his headshot