I noticed the existence of this film after I saw the ‘Eternal sunshine of spotless mind’ and I impressived by it so I found who wrote this script and what would he done for next work. His next work is this film, not only written the script but also his debut flim as a director. I love his schizoid imaginarium with hyperrealistic sense. I could not help watching it.

Flim begun with a home looks quite normal. Main character ‘Caden’ who direct plays in a small theater, live with his wife ‘Adele’ the painter, and their daughter ‘Olive’. Though it doesn’t looks like happy but it doesn’t looks abnormal, neither. But the atmosphere of film reverse from moment that Caden get injured in the face by explosion of tap of sink during shaving, this film running with something uncommon atmosphere. Since Caden’s health get worse gradually, ‘Hazel’ the box-office assistant are involved in his life and Adele leave Caden to Berlin for her exhibition with Olive, the film is organized with ridiculous continuities.

For example, the burning house of Hazel and the man who living in the basement of that house, Caden’s sexual-fantasy and depression, many woman in Caden’s life, happening of bizarre incidents when Cadeon went to Berlin to find her daughter and implications about homo-sexuality…All these things constitute the Caden’s life and it throw audiences into confusion with Caden’s autobiographical play.

The word ‘Synecdoche’ meaning “simultaneous understanding”. The title of film coincidie with film. Flim express the whole life of Caden with preposterous and complicate imagination and metaphorical codes.

Acutually, this is the flim which makes us to exhausted easily, answering to endless questions. Kaufman’s intention, however, are making the people raised a questions. So the audiences think and try to solve the questions during film are running.

Whatever their are no doubt about this unusual way to plotting the sequences will remain as classic. Also director Kaufmans ability that visualization the film like this complicate things should be appreciate.

Apart from these brilliant and unusual way, the acting skill of Philip Seymour Hoffman makes this film worth to watch. His performance that acting the Caden’s timid and depressed feeling through the caden’s prime of life to the senescent delicately reach his peak.

To counclude, I love this kind of strange fantasy film that mix with reality. And should watch this film over and over again.

P.S
I really like the song ‘Little Person’, inserted between the end of the film and the end title. After audiences get dazed with Caden’s drop dead, this song playing with melancholy. It makes to remind whole sequence of the film. Definitely, the lyrics makes me think lots of little things.