In my opinion, however, the funniest Kaufman's script was his least unknown, the daring and extremely amusing look at the nature of human and civilization in his 2001 (but not until 2002 was it released worldwide) "Human Nature".

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Charlie Kaufman is one of the hottest screenwriter in Hollywood at the moment.  After his brain-teasing black philosophical comedy “Being John Malkovich” script in 1999, his unpredictably weird but extremely fun-to-watch writing style was institutionalized as being one of a kind; his last year Oscar nominee’s “Adaptation” was also praised by many critics as being the funniest and most satire script one can write about oneself.

In my opinion, however, the funniest Kaufman’s script was his least unknown, the daring and extremely amusing look at the nature of human and civilization in his 2001 (but not until 2002 was it released worldwide) “Human Nature”.

It is very hard to sum “Human Nature” in a few sentences; it blended so many plot twists and extremely complicated humanity subjects and its most impressive element is the shaping of its 3 main characters, Lila, Nathan, and Puff.

(After this point will be the summary of the story.  For those of you who wish to watch this movie, it is downloadable through Kazaa and rentable at Tsutaya and other video shop.  You can go to the point under “End of the story” for my comments.)

Lila is a beautiful girl who suffered from a hormonal balance that causes her body to be abnormally covered with hairs, just like monkey, since she was 12.  While this does not pose much of a concern for her personally, it does for everyone else and more specifically, men. After getting fed up with the world (as a result of years of working as ‘the monkey girl’ in a circus), she decided to live in the forest amongst the animals and write best-selling nature books about the experiences she earned there.  She was happy to be among the nature where no animal judge her for her repulsive body hair.  However the basic animal instinct in her, the thirst for another sex, begins to make her miss the precious company of men and so she returns to civilization.  Lila turned to use electrolysis shaving to get rid of her body hair and begins a somewhat odd relationship with Nathan Bronfman.

Nathan happens to be an etiquette psychologist who tries to teach mice and Lila table manners.  He, as a result of his freakingly strict mother who always tried to over-educate her son to be a gentleman, believed that every creatures can be civilized and they should be as it is the only way to better the world.  Consider this conversation of his with Lila.

Nathan: Courtesy, decorum, manners, are all sadly lacking from our daily intercourse. Rudeness, vulgarity, meanness are the norm.

Lila:         We are animals after all.

Nathan: Ergo if I can teach table manners to mice, I can teach them to humans. If I can teach table manners to humans, I can save the world.  

Although everyone can guess how this relationship will finally end, at the moment, Lila and Nathan fell deeply in love.  Nathan is the first man in Lila life that, thanks to the development in electrolysis, can hold her with no disgust.  And Lila, due to her non-judging nature, finds no problem in accepting Nathan’s unnaturally small penis.  As long as Lila’s secret would not be revealed, they seem to be the perfect match for each other.      

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One day, Lila and Nathan, in their little journey back to nature (with the persuasion of Lila, of course) come across an untamed man, tarzan-like, Puff.  Puff was raised by his father who believed himself to be an ape trapped in human body, just like a transvestite is a woman trapped in the body of a man. Puff’s father tried to fit in human society; he got married, had Puff, but after Kennedy’s assignation, he broke lose in his office, shouting “Apes don’t kill their own presidents!.”  He then stole little Puff and went to live in the jungle ...

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