regmcfly wrote:tin_robot wrote:Stuff about Synechdoche, New York
Tin, I shall both save your time and pimp myself by giving you an essay I wrote on Synecdoche.
enjoy? Maybe.
Moot_Geeza wrote:I expect I'm quite late to this, but MINDBLOWN by the cast of Scorsese's The Irishman.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302006/
Please be good.
Kow wrote:Except for Ana Paquin. Can't stand her or her weasly face.
I have that quote on a tshirt with a photo of Bronhom shouting.Gremill wrote:Well, maybe you shouldn’t be living here.
Wookienopants wrote:I have that quote on a tshirt with a photo of Bronhom shouting.Gremill wrote:Well, maybe you shouldn’t be living here.
Post Brexit I feel a bit awkward wearing it
regmcfly wrote:tin_robot wrote:I finally got round justto watching Synechdoche, New York last night. I'm a Kaufman fan, but had put it off as I was worried it might be, I don't know really, a bit much. Anyway, I do a sort of film club thing with some friends (because we're too lazy to read books) and this was the pick.
I could write a huge rambling essay, but I'll spare you for now. The quick version - in some ways my fears were right - I found it utterly overwhelming. It jabbed at all of my buttons simultaneously, and I found myself going to bed feeling like someone had just delivered a personal rebuke to every single thing I despise about myself, and a few I hadn't noticed yet. (Despite the film arguably being, at least in part, a warning against precisely such solipsistic self indulgence.)
Having largely got over myself this morning, I've found myself thinking about it a lot, and it is, I think, pretty damn extraordinary. A lot of the stuff I'd thought of as wilfully strange or surreal has sort of coalesced into ideas that make sense to me, irrespective of the original intention, or anyone else's take. (The burning house, the green stools, the shrinking paintings versus the expanding drama, Ellen etc etc.)
The ideas in it are ones Kaufman has mined both before and since (with some fairly explicit similarities to Anomalisa), but for all its tangential weirdness, I think this is also the Kaufman film that most clearly expresses a lot of them.
So yeah, I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed it, but it's a phenomenal piece, and I suspect it's going to be rattling around in my head for quite some time. I'm both glad I watched it, and kind of wished I hadn't.
Tin, I shall both save your time and pimp myself by giving you an essay I wrote on Synecdoche.
enjoy? Maybe.
Gremill wrote:My son (12yo) is going to see RP1 this afternoon, which makes me wonder if he’s going to get even half of the references and, if not, then who is the target audience for this dreck?
I've heard from quite a lot of people who like it. I think the consensus was not really representative of how many people felt about it.Kow wrote:At least I'm not the only one who liked Prometheus so.
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