Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

75%
1570votes
3popularity
124min

WebSite:http://www.sonyclassics.com/synecdocheny
Budget:$20,000,000
Revenue:$4,383,538
Release:10/24/2008
Genres:Drama
Original language:English
Spoken languages:English | German
Countries:United States of America

Overview:

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.… Expand

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Likely Story
United States of America
Projective Testing Service
United States of America
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
United States of America
Russia
United States of America

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"Glad to be weirdly close."
10/21/2008Clip
"You're actors playing actors."
10/21/2008Clip
"Sammy's not here."
10/21/2008Clip
"Beg a girl, why don't ya?"
10/21/2008Clip
"Hire me and you'll see who you truly are."
10/21/2008Clip
"We're all hurtling towards death."
10/21/2008Clip
Caden finds his venue
10/21/2008Clip
Caden and Adele in therapy
10/21/2008Clip
"Have I disappointed you?"
10/21/2008Clip
Official Trailer
9/22/2008Trailer

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onthesilverglobe
- Created:10/20/2022
- Updated:10/20/2022
This truly is a film about everything, and everyone. It is a film about conscious existence and subconscious being, a film about love, a film about death, and the art and emotion expanding in between the longing sonder and emptiness. Synecdoche, New York is sonder as meta-cinematic expression. Life for everyone in their individualistic existence is simply their own syncretic vision of fleeting hope hurling towards inevitable death, and that’s perfectly ok, it’s just how things are. We all live in our own fiction unbeknownst to other’s fictions, so what truly matters is the genuine emotion we individually find and connect with through it all. Emotion is the only reality humanity is capable of grasping, and we must accept and learn to appreciate and live with that fact before it’s too late and our life has passed us by. Much alike an aspect of the film, where we constantly experience time leaps multiple years into the future without preparation or warning. A reflection of the fleeting nature of existence and how we can experience the transience of time before it’s too late, and the post-humous regret we will feel as a result of our ignorance to emotion and the inevitability of being. This isn’t a hopeless or nihilistic film, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. "Sonder — noun. (neologism) the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Trying to analytically determine whether events in the film 'really happened' or not, or taking anything in this film as a literal matter of reality, is completely and utterly fruitless, and I believe goes completely against what the movie stands for. The film is intentionally crafted to defy such an undeviating analysis. It all happened, within a film! It is very much about why we make anything, why our individuality is significant. What do we hope to accomplish by creating or feeling something? How can you make anything about life if you are at that very moment? It's a feedback loop: everything is a synecdoche; part of a greater whole. The reality of the film is fictional because the film is aware that itself is fiction. It suggests that in some sense, every work ever made, no matter how true to life, is inescapably fiction, and that fiction is in some ways even more true to life than reality itself. We all live in our own fictional worlds, and when we task others to create or give emotion to our world, it can create a mirrored chamber of tunnel vision, a feedback loop. Caden gets lost in the mirror chamber, and the entire being of the film itself is an extension of that mirror. A masterclass of existential meta-cinema. There are so many different subplots and aspects of this film that I could literally write a master’s thesis on it, but instead, I rather just chose to focus on the things most impactful to me in this little writeup. I could go on and on overanalyzing everything, but I think that would be counterintuitive towards the movie. This absolute masterpiece sparked lots of laughing, crying, and every emotion in between. It does what it is designed to do, force you into a metaphysical existential crisis. This is truly one of the most uniquely special films ever made, impactful in every single manner. One of the most principally powerful and important pieces of art EVER, I found myself sobbing even at parts that I didn’t even know what was going on. As the credits rolled I cried harder than I have in months, films like this are the reason I believe cinema to be the inherent soul of all artistic mediums, and the reason I find beauty in this chaotic existence. This film is going straight to my top 5 without a single fucking question or doubt in my mind. Rest in peace, PSH. Your work continues to greatly impact millions of people, even after death. You are dearly cherished and missed. And thank you Charlie Kaufman, for completely transcending the medium, and creating one of the single most important films in the history of cinema.… Expand

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