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“Synecdoche” is the story of a theater director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman, exhaling despair with every breath), miserably married to a talented painter, Adele Lack (Catherine Keener). The two live in Schenectady, N.Y., with their 4-year-old, Olive (Sadie Goldstein), who, when the story opens, is casually evacuating radioactive-green feces. Neither Caden nor Adele is alarmed, so intensely are they wrapped up in a depressive melancholia they seem to have nurtured longer than their daughter.
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Among many, many other things, “Synecdoche, New York” is about authenticity, including the search for an authentic self in an inauthentic world.
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Like the full-scale map in Borges’s short story “On Exactitude in Science,” the representation takes on the dimensions of reality to the point of replacing it. The French theorist Jean Baudrillard uses Borges’s story as a metaphor for his notion of the simulacrum
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Movie Review
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Synecdoche, New York
Abbot Gensler/Sony Pictures Classics
From left Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Tom Noonan in "Synecdoche, New York."
October 24, 2008
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By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: October 24, 2008
To say that Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. That at least would be an appropriate response to a film about failure, about the struggle to make your mark in a world filled with people who are more gifted, beautiful, glamorous and desirable than the rest of us — we who are crippled by narcissistic inadequacy, ye
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