Synecdoche, New York

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i'm a little wiped out from the day and watching this movie again, i felt i had to before sending it back to netflix, but i figured i'd put this out there. maybe you guys already knew this but it made the movie, not more clear, but even more interesting to me. i took a lot more in from the second viewing but i wanted to "get it" more so i googled for a few minutes. i didn't know what "synecdoche" was. i thought it was just a play on words with the town in new york where it's kind of set. it actually sort of is, by definition, but that just adds more layers to this thing. if you didn't know about this, and saw the movie, maybe check it out. i'll probably do a little more probing some other time, i only looked at a few things for a few minutes. it's a movie i really want to understand, but i'm not sure that's what you're actually supposed to do. like rok or butch said, i think it is a little pretentious, but what's he going to do? make a dumbed down movie so i can understand it? if anything, it's good when a movie makes you think like this afterwards