Synecdoche New York

I went to see Synecdoche New York last night at 9:45 p.m. at the 45th Guild Theatre. Prior to this I had seen two of Charlie Kaufman's films, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. As a filmmaker, Charlie Kaufman certainly has an artistic way of portraying his thoughts with different and somewhat crazy but intriguing concepts and ideas, you could definitely tell Synecdoche was a Kaufman film. I have to say my favorite film he has done is Being John Malkovich because of the original idea and the creativity that went into the film, it is definitely something that has never really been done before. In relation to our course and our discussions with taking advantage of the moment and being present in life Synecdoche shows just that. It portrays a man who was not living in the moment in Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character where he was always very unsure of himself and instead of choosing to see the beauty he was surrounded with he focused on what he didn't have. An example of this is with his constant thinking of his own death but it was the people around him who were the one's passing away while he was failing to realize his own blessings, maybe he projected his own death on them. I felt it was both meaningful and comical how they continued trying to capture the essence of "realness" in life and how they never felt it was "right", but while he continued to do so life was passing him by, showing his own attachment to the past. My favorite parts of the film were the scene transitions, how it continued to take reality and turn it into a set, I had never seen that done before in a film. I enjoyed this movie but I think it is one of those films, like other Kaufman films, where you need to see it more than once to feel like you fully understand the meaning.