FLY falls on the opposite side of Melvil on this one. Without the meta aspect of Kaufman's films I'd hardly be interested at all because of the impossibility of making a great emotional drama. Conversely if you are meticulous enough you can craft a complex and engaging mind puzzle because everyone can, for the most part, consider and process that in the same way. There may be bits opened up to interpretation, and films may offer evidence to support that, but with an emotional drama there is no common ground outside of the actual knowledge that feelings probably exist. He'd be setting himself up for failure if he did that, and it's little surprise that the heartfelt moments in his films tend to fall flat because of the subjectivity and pointlessness of emotion. Emotion aside, Adaptation, S,NY, and his other films are still interesting because of how they are told and the larger ideas they attempt to explore.