And yes, it IS a tragedy!

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2007)

A giant tragedy, that someone didn't make a real movie out if this otherwise cool idea! Just think of all the possibilities there could have been with a set like this! A man discovers that he is a person in a novel. What a surreal plot could have been born out of this! Once again, what possibilities would the author have had. But it all came different. No, it all came the usual old Hollywood way, where a boy meets a girl, he loves her, she hates him and in the end they're together in bed eating cookies after letting their co stars say some even more typical Hollywood pieces of wisdom about life and the universe itself...! Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh! And it all started so well. The first 20 minutes of the film were conceptually and especially visually so cool that I constantly thought about to whom out of all my friends I might recommend this film afterwards. But then it all changed and seeing it to the end was something between embarrassing pain and hope it still might "get the curve", as we say in German, meaning I still hoped for a clever and UNPREDICTABLE or at least CONSEQUENT ending. Well, no! Not this time. I still give it a 3 because of the beginning and the end titles, also visually beautiful made. What a pity - sigh! Charlie Kaufmann, please help us out!