“It’s possible, not likely, but possible, that Charlie Kaufman will reveal that this movie was a joke to see which film critics know what they’re talking about, and really it’s a bunch of nonsense he threw together to see who’d call it like it is.
It’s also possible that I’m dense. Or just didn’t have the patience for artsy bullshit. I mean, I usually have the patience, but not 135 minutes of patience for something that doesn’t really pay off.
I sort of hope it IS a big joke, not so much because I’d be right, but because that would be a more interesting way for Charlie Kaufman to spend his time than making stuff like this sincerely. Plus, from there forward, we would ALWAYS have to wonder whether a movie was a big joke. It would have happened once, meaning it’d always be possible again.”