• Synecdoche: New York
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIizh6nYnTU[/media] Here's a summary of the plot: [sp]Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. His lingering attachments to both Adele and Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy and Tammy, the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.[/sp] This is one of the most intricate and heavy movies I've seen. I'll probably give it another viewing tonight. As of now, it stands at least in my top 5 favorite movies. It also has a really unique plotline. Highly highly recommended, but it requires some careful watching. [editline]6th November 2010[/editline] [img]http://www.filmai.in/uploads/posts/2010-07/1279730561_synecdoche-new-york-poster.jpg[/img]
Never heard of this but it looks like something I'd like a lot. Gotta watch it some time.
I love all of Charlie Kaufman's other films but on first viewing I didn't really like this one too much. He really went over his head on all of the symbolism and metaphors and stuff in the movie. Maybe I'll like it on repeated viewings. I don't know.
I only read about this and heard it's very hard to follow or that a lot of happens in it. It kind of put me off because the basic plot didn't interest me at the time.
Yeah, I highly recommend this movie. It shouldn't be very hard to follow if you watch it fairly actively (not necessarily munching on popcorn and talking to your friend next to you).
i love this movie. i've seen it twice. there's so much depth to it - i'd watch it again but it drags out a little and can be hard to sit through.
Seems like a very very complicated movie to follow but seems interesting.
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