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Post by klep on Oct 5, 2015 11:47:32 GMT -6
MOVIE OF THE WEEK for 10/5: Synecdoche, New York Synecdoche, New York is the second film from Charlie Kaufman to which tries to find meaning by examining the life of an artist. While not quite as personal as his earlier Adaptation, this film still feels quite intimate despite its epic scale. Playing - naturally - a middle-aged schlub, Philip Seymour Hoffman's Caden Cotard is suffering from mysterious health problems; obsessed with his approaching death. As his marriage falls apart, he wins a MacArthur Genius Grant and sets about creating a play that would encompass the entirety of life and all of its miseries.
In pursuit of this goal, he starts building a to-scale replica of his life in an impossibly large warehouse and casting actors to play the people in his life (including himself). Along the way he forms and loses romantic relationships as he becomes more and more indistinguishable from his work.
Kaufman has always had an affinity for the surreal, but Synecdoche, New York has to rank as one of his odder films. There are so many details that inject some kind of strangeness into things, and don't necessarily serve a purpose. What's your favorite bit of surrealism from this film, and do you think it has any larger significance for the film's meaning?
OUR NEXT MOVIE OF THE WEEK for 10/12: A Matter of Life and Death *Ron Paul It's Happening .gif*
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