Reviews of Synecdoche, New York 2008
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Charlie Kaufman's debut as a director, and easily the most thought provoking of the films he has written and directed. It is very obvious now that it will take Tetramoose and I several views of the film to really register the meaning of all of its content. The film features excellent writing, some great visuals and an extremely powerful performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman. I'm going to have to revisit this film if I'm really going to elaborate my thoughts on it any further. I have to gather more thoughts on Synecdoche, New York before saying anymore.
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Sublime
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What a mind blowing film from Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut. The dialogue, the multi- layered story, depressing characters and mood. Fantastical story with realistically emotional characters. A puzzle waiting to be solved.
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Layers of examination, never rising above the mundane, revealing inaccessible self loathing. God relieve our grief.
At one point, Caden suggests the title 'Infectious Diseases among Cattle' for his play. It's full of existential crises, of being just a minor addition to life's never ending largeness, even worse, your tiny existence being misremembered. But that line about infectious diseases in cattle, Kaufman's talking about loneliness infecting everyone, herds of cattle rushed through decisions, deluded in thinking their minutiae of a…
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After watching Being John Malkovich last week, I started to have a craving for more of Charlie Kaufman's surreal style. So I chose to watch Synecdoche, New York, Kaufman's first directorial effort. A film that had been getting so much love here on Letterboxd. A film that I had put off for sometime now. A film that has moved me unlike any other film has done to me in recent memory. It struck so…
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Something about this film resonated with me in a way I don't have the ability to describe.
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Usually when I decided to rewatch a movie, I find myself missing all the subtleties that are often missed during a first viewing, and even if I didn't like the movie the first time around, I either end up liking, or at least coming to an appreciation of the film. However, with Synecdoche, New York, although I did find some new things to like about the film, I also found many of the errors and bad aspects of the film…
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Still mesmerizes me with its cerebral surrealism dense plot and emotional profundity. It's abstruse, it's self indulgent, but completely works.
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What the fuck were Metro thinking "Loop-the-looping big themes such as mortality, infidelity and impotence, this is an hilarious, intellectual roller-coaster ride you’ll rush to take again. Falling into someone else’s belly button has rarely been so much fun." I bought the blu-ray of this and it's labelled as the "smash hit comedy of the year" and the previously mentioned Metro review spouting it as "hilarious". I've never seen a film so misrepresented.
This is pure cinema that wouldn't work…
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