It’s been done in writing often enough - first and maybe still best in Wordsworth — but it’s interesting to see it done well in the time and space of a movie.

As someone who was trained in an English department but eventually did research on film and media studies, I’m fascinated by the issue of adaptation, and quite often I find that the best adaptations are the ones that acknowledge how they depart from the original text (and, of course, Adaptation is a clever negotiation of the problematics of adaptation).