Synecdoche, New York is a film directed and written by Charlie Kaufman.  Kaufman is best known for films such as Being John Malcovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Adaptation.  The title of the film is derived from Schenectady, New York and synecdoche where a piece represents the whole.

This movie is honestly beyond my interpretative abilities.  We begin with stable characters and progress toward total blending of dream and reality.  This leads to a surreal emergence of a play within the created world of the film.  The world is then swallowed by the play and I am left completely lost.  I feel like I could only understand the film and its motives after some extensive study in Literature and Theatre.  Until then, I am just confused and lost in the film.

“I don’t know what I am doing.”

4/10