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Meeting screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for the first time leaves one unmistakable impression: Nicolas Cage is a very, very good actor...
...Leaving Las Vegas would seem to have little in common with the slight, wiry man looking vaguely anxious as he faces a less-than-imposing panel of five student reporters on Tuesday. Cage was considered a few years back for the part of a big-screen Superman; calling Kaufman Clark Kent would be something of a stretch. For anyone who’s seen Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston Ritz-Carlton, is living evidence that...
Directed by Philip Kaufman...
...left perplexed as to some of the character’s decisions and motives. Co-stars Jackson and Garcia play their parts well, but are crippled by the poor dialogue of screenwriter Sarah Thorp, whose script traps the characters in awkward, clichéd language. Even the redemptive Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Right Stuff) can’t allow the film to recover from its overused dialogue...
...sexual prowess, but her actions are seen in a much more negative light by the male characters. In a spin on the standard established by films such as American Psycho, it is Twisted’s men, not its women, who are victimized and murdered for their activities. Kaufman toys with the underlying sexual themes in his movies, and Twisted’s suspenseful mood heightens the power of this component...