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Synecdoche, New York, on DVD & Blu-ray

by manz

Charlie Kaufman is at it again. Writing scripts and making movies that make our mind whirl in fabulous circles while searching for meaning and grasping at words. His most recent, quite different than Adaptation or Eternal Sunshine…, is Synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as dilapidated theater director Caden Cotard. The film follows Cotard as he deals with various failing relationships in the humdrum of his “meaningless” life. He longs to create an opus theater piece that will live on long after he does. Once he eventually starts to set the stage for his autobiographical masterpiece, the line between theater and reality becomes blurred as the characters themselves are interchanging lives and scenes with the actors playing them. (It’s Charlie Kaufman, what did you expect?) This goes on for many years, with Cotard at the helm, aging, trying to cope with the intertwined reality of life and the never ending play itself. File under: Thinker.

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