"Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen."
-- Minister (Mark Lotito), Synecdoche, New York (2008), written and directed by Charlie Kaufman
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Okay, my real life and my GITS life are intertwining a little too much...
Just watched this last night for the first time.
Still processing it... I LOVED so much of it, overflowing with beautiful images and challenging notions, and yet the utterly overpowering, soul-crushing bleakness of it all almost did me in.
It kind of had that BARTON FINK (certainly one of my all time favorites) thing going on, y'know?
Either way, the film kept me up late, long after the credits rolled. Couldn't shake it.
Probably a good indication of its greatness...
Oh and on another interesting note... my wife had to ultimately leave the room at or around the 45 minute mark. She simply couldn't take the overbearing despair... and she's never one to shy away from challenging material. (she had no problem recently with Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE)
"What's wrong, don't you like it?" I asked as she headed for the other side of the house.
"It's like filmed death," she muttered.
"Filmed death." I like that!
This movie comments on so many brilliant little insights on life.
The story touches upon so many aspects of being human, living on this planet...and the way life is.
Defenetly a film that needs to be seen more then once. Loved it!
That's the story of my life right now. Waiting for something to come along but also trying to be active in creating my own professional success.
However, I read the script and couldn't bear to even see the movie. Boring and unnecessarily complex as fuck
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