Friday, January 16, 2009

Just abandoned.

Synecdoche, NY - 8/10. Hey, man, that was pretty good.

More.

Jam-packed full of ideas, good ideas, about art and artists and I guess regular motherfuckers, too, but who gives a shit about them. Charlie Kaufman's flaws in the past have been sacrificing a certain amount of character development for the sake of his ideas, which is a sort of half-assed criticism, really, and it's still there in this one, though lesser. He managed to cram in all of his ideas and have his most fleshed-out character so far, even if it falls short of understanding itself. It shows how smart Charlie Kaufman is that he ends up making that part of the point of the movie anyway. I'm waiting for the day I can talk about Charlie Kaufman movies without talking about Charlie Kaufman.

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