Synecdoche, New York was really cool but fuck did it leave me confused; i'll have to watch it a couple more times. it's by Charlie Kaufman (did you see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? think that kind of confusing. and no it's not a teenage cult flick) it's about a guy, Caden, who's life is slowly unwinding; his married life is failing him and...well he's dying. he comes across this prestigious grant which allows to finally make his great contribution to society: the most brutally honest play about life. the movie is filled with motifs and other 'smart person' stuff, for example, the forever burning house, the giant warehouse within a warehouse, or the doppelgangers that everyone has. watch this movie; it'll bum you out but it's really good.
The Virgin Suicides is about a family with five daughters growing up in suburban Detroit in the late seventies. it's shown through a group of boys' point of view who are sifting through the events and trying to understand why it is that led the girl's to end their lives. i don't feel like telling you about it too much because im really hungry. im going to go buy some ramen from Walgreens now, goodnight.
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sorry this i didn't really talk about whats going on right now, next post.
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Jeff, I read the book first before the movie came out and I must say that the movie stayed very loyal to the novel. In the novel, there was no definitive narrator -- it's the overall perception of the neighborhood boys who wanted to rescue the girls. Soundtrack is amazing -- it was the my introduction to Air.
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