Synecdoche, New York
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Synecdoche, New York
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Charlie Kaufman's first feature as director is uncompromisingly weird and will make you feel either really smart or really dumb. You might stroll out of the cinema stroking your chin about Baudrillard, Sartre or Jung. Or you might just go, "Wha' happen?"
Personally - and this film is impossible not to consider personally - I took it as a warning about over-analysing stuff. Synecdoche, New York is about an anxious, hypochondriac theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who so obsessively revises and rehearses an epic play about the meaning of existence that he becomes increasingly alienated from living his own life. It infused me with a fierce desire to cherish each moment for what it is, rather than wasting time wondering what it means.
The uniformly brilliant cast (including Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Emily Watson and Dianne Wiest) inhabit a hazy space between dreaming, waking and what you glimpse from the corner of your eye. Time is elastic and stuff makes no sense. In places it's very irritating and boring. But Synecdoche, New York manages to be funny and intimate within its dizzyingly confronting premise. Just run with it. It will tell you something that isn't easy to forget.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: New York, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Kaufman
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