Really interesting film I think, have always been a fan of Charlie Kaufman films (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation).
Not gonna lie though I had no idea what this film was about at first but after watching it a second time and reading a few reviews/analysis things it's really grown on me and I think it is actually a really amazing film.
I highly recommend watching it blind but then if you are confused afterwards read a little about what it's about and some of the references and things in there and it is very interesting, it's a very densely packed film but it's still very entertaining to watch (imo) even if you're not sure what's happening. It's on Netflix if you got that.
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One of the key themes that stuck out to me was the idea of how movies and media infect us 'like a virus' and that by being saturated in other media, we become them. Also the idea that the girl says that no person is really original, they are just bits of other people, which is funny because she herself is a fantasy character in the mind of the janitor, made up of bits of other people and films/books that he has read.
Thinking about this makes the ending make a lot more sense with the Beautiful Mind and Oklahoma references, this is how the janitor sees himself and the film is all about his internal life and fantasies while his actual life is boring and unfulfilling, still living on that farm washing his janitors clothes in the basement.
Interested if anyone else has seen this and what they thought? It's one of those films that sticks with you for a while after. I can imagine some may find a lot of the dialogue kinda pretentious but I also think that's kind of the point.
Wasn't the red-haired dream girl in Eternal Sunshine?
haven't seen that one, at least not for a long time if i have cos i don't remember it at all