Jane, Wojciech Has's 'Manuscript Found in Saragossa', from a novel by Jan Potocki, might be worth looking at. It's not that any individual thing that happens is hard to understand, or that cause-effect is obscure, but the plot is an overwhelming nesting of stories - a person tells a tale, then someone in that tale begins another..so on. As far as I'm concerned it's a classic example of 'losing the plot' very much enhancing the fun factor. Slightly OT, Charlie Kauffman's script for the not-yet-released 'Adaptation' (dir. Spike Jonze) contains what I *think* is a broadside against films like The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, The Sixth Sense - e.g. films that finally extricate themselves from their own complexities with 'cheating' explanations. In the script, the scriptwriter character has a pathetic twin who's blithely writing a serial killer picture with some help from Robert McKee: the twist is that cop, killer, and girl victim turn out in the end to all be the same person. Laura _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu