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Sunday, December 08, 2002


Charlie Kaufman's brilliant new movie, Adaptation

Read New York Times review. I saw Kaufman's funny original Being John Malkovich and bet he infused this movie with that same infectious sense of play.

"At one point in The Orchid Thief, Ms. Orlean asks a park ranger named Tony why he thinks people find orchids so seductive. His answer matches both the nonchalance and the insight of this remarkable, impossible film: 'Oh, mystery, beauty, unknowability, I suppose. Besides, I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.' "

Here is Susan Orlean's original New Yorker piece that inspired her book The Orchid Thief.


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