Adaptation

Here's another one of those movies I've been meaning to watch for a couple years.  I got the chance to pick it up for $10 and jumped on it.  Bendog has been on me forever to watch it and I finally did.  A couple people told me this was going to be so much like Being John Malkovich.  It was, but it wasn't.  I think the cast did a great job on this.  Especially Cage, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep.  Also enjoyed seeing Ron Livingston, star of my favorite Office Space.  Cage did an excellent job playing two characters.  He was his own twin brother.  One was outgoing, and dangerous.  The other was a nervous wreck who always worried about what others thought.  As the movie progressed you see these twin brothers playing off of eachother and empowering eachother in ways they never imagined.  It was pretty cool.  The movie seemed almost a bit dull and boring.  At one part a motivational speaker of sorts chews out one of the characters for thinking "real life" is boring, dull, lifeless, unfullfilling, dissapointing, safe, etc.  By the end of the movie this character realizes what "real life" really is. This made me think a little about how I view life sometimes.  Yeah, life can be dissapointing, threatening, and discouraging...but things are really what you make out of them.  It sorta goes back to the cup being half empty or half full.  Now I really get annoyed with this illustration, but there's some good stuff in it.  Nobody really makes you do much of anything.  It's all your choice.  That annoying co-worker doesn't piss you off, you choose to get worked up about them.  Well, I was about to come up with a bunch of other examples, but I'm sure you can come up with whatever on your own.  I know people that have had unbelievable amounts of hardship and I know some people that seem to have had to deal with none at all.  It's always interesting to see how these people act.  Some people go through hard times and come out bitter while others don't.  Some people have no hard times and are bitter while others aren't.  It's all a matter of how you percieve and react.  It's also usually not where you are that makes or breaks the situation but who you're there with.