This film is awesome on so many fronts. Beautiful in tone, character, honesty in question, truth in creative journey.
Charlie Kaufman writes an amazing script based on Susan Orlean's book, and Spike Jonze directs so well.
One of the most striking and exciting parts of the film is seeing Kaufman's overal mastery of the form, his understanding of how to get all the rule-thumping screenwriter police to explode or leave the theater right away.
This ruthless opening--which in the script is a one page monologue over blackness, in direct opposition to Hitchcock's "Pure Cinema"--is the perfect content and delivery for a film and character journey through/about the trials of balancing art, truth, creativity, with engaging, commercial, roller coaster filmmaking.
At the start of the film, the main character is fighting, and by the end he is accepting and uniting.
That fight is shown perfectly in the opening.
Great movie. Top ten all time favorite personally. Be well. http://www.LionSuit.com