The movie Adaptation is meant to grab the attention of viewers on many levels. The basic feel of the movie is basically, what you think it is it isn’t, and what it is its really not. This is done with such things as reoccurring images and hidden meanings scattered throughout the film. For example there is a lot of hidden meaning in the color green. Such things as the swamp, the drugs, the alligators, and the idea of nature as being new are all associated with the color green. The swamp, although not the main setting of the movie, explains many of the emotions of the characters throughout the film. The main ideas and points to the movie were constantly changing, yet eventually came to significant ending.
The color green is linked to many of the experiences and emotions of the film. Envy, the act of wanting something more than the person who has it, was represented through Charlie and Susan. Charlie describes, in the beginning of th
The word Adaptation it self suggests constant change. It was once said that “you could never step in the same stream twice” because by the time you put your foot back down a new stream of water will have arrived. Like the idea that what you think it is it isn’t and what it is, its really not. We live in a world of constant change and contradiction, but like the characters in the movie we always seem to adapt.
The main idea of Adaptation is longing for a purpose or passion, hoping to add depth to a somewhat shallow world. The search for the purpose and passion begins and ends with either disappointment or enlightenment. In Susan’s case it was disappointment because her life had come to an abrupt halt. She left her successful husband in New York for a poor Florida drug dealer who was killed by an alligator, all this only to become a drug addict and an attempted murderer. In Charlie’s case it was enlightenment because he now knew how to overcome his fear of the unknow
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