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is a troubling film. One has this disturbing sense - sitting through its arduous navel-gazing at our flawed human condition, marveling at its flashes of brilliance and utter weirdness - that there's something really special about Charlie Kaufman's first directorial effort. But calling it a good and/or entertaining movie is a real stretch. It's almost as if the film would be more appropriately viewed by one's dreaming self than the conscious one. Call it entertainment for the Id. The film (also written by Kaufman) is brim-full of ugly truths. Sure, we're all going to die, and disease can strike anyone, anywhere, any time - but that's no reason for a person to become obsessed with the concept, as small-time theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman, dour throughout) does. Through proximity and osmosis, Caden passes... [read full story]
