Film Synecdoche, New York

[Wordswords]

truly great film.

 

[psood0nym]

I'm pretty sure the film threads are safe.

Other film threads I started were deleted during the last site prune. I hope you're right and the policy has changed. You'd think with advances in technology and general increased internet speed the information volume would be absorbed without relative consequence. Oh well.

I see I'm still the only person who's tried to interpret the film (first post). Anybody else?

 

[SteveSircull]

I see I'm still the only person who's tried to interpret the film (first post). Anybody else?

Saw it, loved it, too thick myself to fully interpret tho

What u said makes sense styl with regards to the overall scope. Only seen it once so cant relate to the individual details

 

[AmorRoark]

Saw it, loved it, too thick myself to fully interpret tho

What u said makes sense styl with regards to the overall scope. Only seen it once so cant relate to the individual details

OMFG are you using english-translator.com?

 

[SteveSircull]

OMFG are you using english-translator.com?

babelfish mate

 

[raui]

I liked this movie a lot but I was pretty hyped for it, so it didn't entirely live up to my expectations. I think I need to see it again. I read up on imdb after seeing it though so I got a lot of the ideas from it.

 

[L2R]

finally finally saw this, and i am blown teh fuck away. perfect timing since i've only recently studied into delusions. i got the references. had i seen this a year or two ago, i would have missed a good chunk of it and been substantially more brain-broken than i was last night (still fairly broken still).

you can see where kaufman took some directorial learnings from jonze and gondry.

i feel pretty smashed 5/5

 

[L2R]

psoo, since you are so keen on understanding this fine film more, i would recommend getting an understanding of delusions prior to your next viewing.

Types
Delusions are categorized into four different groups:

Bizarre delusion: A delusion that is very strange and completely implausible; an example of a bizarre delusion would be that aliens have removed the affected person's brain.
Non-bizarre delusion: A delusion that, though false, is at least possible, e.g., the affected person mistakenly believes that he is under constant police surveillance.
Mood-congruent delusion: Any delusion with content consistent with either a depressive or manic state, e.g., a depressed person believes that news anchors on television highly disapprove of him, or a person in a manic state might believe she is a powerful deity.
Mood-neutral delusion: A delusion that does not relate to the sufferer's emotional state; for example, a belief that an extra limb is growing out of the back of one's head is neutral to either depression or mania.[5]

Themes
In addition to these categories, delusions often manifest according to a consistent theme. Although delusions can have any theme, certain themes are more common. Some of the more common delusion themes are:[5]

Delusion of control: This is a false belief that another person, group of people, or external force controls one's general thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior.
Cotard delusion: This is a false belief that one does not exist or has become deceased.[6]
Delusional jealousy: A person with this delusion falsely believes that a person is lying to them or that a spouse or lover is having an affair, with no proof to back up their claim.
Delusion of guilt or sin (or delusion of self-accusation): This is a false feeling of remorse or guilt of delusional intensity.
Delusion of mind being read: The false belief that other people can know one's thoughts.
Delusion of reference: The person falsely believes that insignificant remarks, events, or objects in one's environment have personal meaning or significance.
Erotomania A delusion where someone believes another person is in love with them.
Grandiose Religious delusion: the belief that the affected person is a god, or chosen to act as a god.[7][8]
Somatic delusion: A delusion whose content pertains to bodily functioning, bodily sensations, or physical appearance. Usually the false belief is that the body is somehow diseased, abnormal, or changed—for example, infested with parasites.
Delusional parasitosis: a delusion in which one feels infested with an insect, bacteria, mite, spiders, lice, fleas, worms, or other organisms. Affected individuals may also report being repeatedly bitten. In some cases, entomologists are asked to investigate cases of mysterious bites. Sometimes physical manifestations may occur including skin lesions.[9]
Delusion of poverty: The person strongly believes that he is financially incapacitated. Although this type of delusion is less common now[citation needed], it was particularly widespread in the days before state support.[10]

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion

Look up Capgras and look into Cotard as they both feature heavily in the movie.

 

[psood0nym]

^Thanks!

 

[L2R]

no worries.

look closely, i recall a scene where he buzzes at an apartment complex. the name on the top floor is capgras. hell, his last name is cotard.