If you've seen Synecdoche New York, what did you think?

[HeyZeus]

I loved it! Not from a pure entertainment viewpoint, but from an artist trying to ask really big, important, and unresolved questions about our existence.

Charlie Kaufman wrote and directed it, and again shows his fearlessness and ambition. This one does not have the accessibility of Adaptation, but it is a great, thought provoker that stays with you.

Two good reviews courtesy of Netflix say it better than I could:

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P.S. I discovered completely by accident that Charlie Kaufman used to write for my all-time favorite sitcom "Get A Life" with Chris Elliott, and that Charlie wrote the greatest episode of all, 1977 when Chris goes back in time to try and prevent Gus (Brian Doyle Murray) from being fired from the police force for urinating on the police captain. If you remember this episode, you probably remember a little something about a turkey baster? You are awesome Charlie. Episode available on YouTube. Search "Get a Life 1977" and you will find it conveniently broken into three segments. Enjoy.

[INTJoe]

I have not seen it. But I know a writer in LA who gave it a 10/10 and he said he only gives 1 or 2 of those a year.

[LPM]

I saw this over the weekend. Still trying to process it and need to watch it again. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I hoped I would.

Initial impression was that it was just a little too random for me. I love Kaufman's style and I think he's brilliant, but either I just didn't get this one or he failed in bringing home the points like he did in his other films.

**Spoiler alert**

I had a thought when PSH's character was talking to his adult daughter Olive when she was dying. She yelled at him saying he left her for his homosexual lover and for anal sex. Others had told him he left his wife and daughter previously, thought it was obvious they left him. Add to this the numerous health conditions he was suffering from, and I wondered if the reality was that PSH actually had contracted AIDS through his homosexual activity not shown in the movie and that his view of reality was totally warped, maybe even he was dying and the movie was a Jacob's Ladder kind of thing. And he was manifesting his issues in other people (ala his wife left him for gay lover whatever her name was that he hated so much). But this obviously wasn't the case as the movie went a completely different direction. I do believe the point of manifesting his own fears/issues/shortcomings in others was a theme of the movie, though.

[aok]

Great. I like anything from Charlie Kaufman.