Thursday, June 11, 2009

I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself.


Synecdoche, New York. One of my most anticipated of 2008 that I never saw. It got polarized reviews; "one of those films you either love or hate," I would hear. I neither love nor hate Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut. I'm pretty unfamiliar with Kaufman in the first place. I've only seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and about a third of Adaptation., which was enough to inform me of the utter self-loathing that crawls under his genius, which is certainly a key part of Synecdoche. (A synecdoche, by the way, is "is a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself or vice versa", according to http://www.virtualsalt.com.) It's tough to watch the film without connecting Caden (played by the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman) to the author. Yeah, yeah, you're not supposed to judge the art by the artist, so I'll refrain from making any judgments about the film based on my opinions of Kaufman himself. 

I think that had I watched the film with any clear expectations (dreck, masterpiece, etc.) I would have been sorely disappointed. I was, actually, sorely disappointed by the first two acts; not only because it was slow but because I was seeing nothing new. Mismatched married couple, check; cute daughter, check; dreadful separation for which the wife is the one responsible, check; prospects for affair, check. Thankfully, the promise shown by the cast, the score (repetitive yet profound), and the writer/director blossomed into several gorgeous final scenes. The end of the film, starting with Hazel and Caden's long-awaited reconciliation, contains all the poetic emotion and gauziness of a play by Tennessee Williams (certainly not that of Arthur Miller; Caden's adaptation of Death of a Salesman is almost comical earlier on). This is certainly helped by the presence of Dianne Wiest, one of those actresses that kids my age like to refer to as "the nice lady from Edward Scissorhands". Her very voice reminds us, the audience, of the theatricality of the whole movie that is a result not of Caden's project, which has less significance than the moods and relationships it influences. 

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