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Adaptation – to save a mocking word

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer

Tweet Adaptation – Spike Jonze ‘Adaptation’ is a rarity – a cinematic film that relishes language and lets it drive its substance rather than merely subserviently lubricate a deterministic plot. A picture may be worth a thousand words but an image still has a ‘grammar’: its semantic power parasitic upon the language and the culture […]

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