Not part of the whole
As @EdXeno noticed, somehow the movie theater in downtown Schenectady is not playing Synecdoche, New York! (Earlier on AOA: Sounds like Schenectady)
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Most of the movie does take place in NYC though.
I saw it at Spectrum7. Probably a tad too long, still quite astonishing considering the breadth of the movie (and the last few seconds, wow). Ebert has what I think is a pretty clear review of what's going on. I quote:
"We find something we want to do, if we are lucky, or something we need to do, if we are like most people. We use it as a way to obtain food, shelter, clothing, mates, comfort, a first folio of Shakespeare, model airplanes, American Girl dolls, a handful of rice, sex, solitude, a trip to Venice, Nikes, drinking water, plastic surgery, child care, dogs, medicine, education, cars, spiritual solace -- whatever we think we need. To do this, we enact the role we call "me," trying to brand ourselves as a person who can and should obtain these things.
In the process, we place the people in our lives into compartments and define how they should behave to our advantage. Because we cannot force them to follow our desires, we deal with projections of them created in our minds. But they will be contrary and have wills of their own. Eventually new projections of us are dealing with new projections of them. Sometimes versions of ourselves disagree. We succumb to temptation -- but, oh, father, what else was I gonna do? I feel like hell. I repent. I'll do it again."
... said -S on Dec 22, 2008 at 1:03 PM | link