An In-Depth Analysis of Synecdoche, New York
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- Опубликовано: 27 янв 2022
- Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York has quickly become one of my favourite films of all time. The themes it touches on throughout it's 2 hour runtime are tackled in an interesting, layered and thought-provoking way. What I'm attempting to do in this video, is simply give one interpretation of the film, which is my interpretation. With the film being so abstract, there's multiple things you can take-away from the imagery and events within the film, and I'd love to hear your own personal thoughts in the comments. It should be said that YMS' Synecdoche series heavily inspired the making of this video, giving me several new ways to think about the film, as well as getting me even more interested in Kaufman's work as a whole. Anyways, hope you guys enjoy.
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Olive's storyline is so frustrating and horrifying. She was basically manipulated and groomed by Maria and Adele
Like many children are…
Worth considering what part Caden played in that - passively or otherwise.
@@codyhastings2516 he played no part, what could he have done? should he have expected his wife of being so unbelievably deranged? sued them in a different country? he doesnt even know where they are, or what names they go by. At a certain point, its hopeless, the fucking german government shoulda solved this, people in Olive's life in germany should have stopped it.
@@codyhastings2516 Virtually none. He tried his best to be a good father. Adele being dissatisfied in her marriage was no excuse to kidnap her daughter and subject her to sexual abuse.
I thought the tiny paintings were to contrast Caden's sprawling play because Adele doing little pieces of work means she can do many in her lifetime. Caden doing 1 MASSIVE piece of work that tries to be about everything means he can never finish it.
I think the Little Winky book is there to make Caden feel inadequate, someone wrote this book at only 4 and it gets adapted into a movie later and he spends decades on a play he never finishes
Yeah also Caden is obviously very emasculated by Adele (who iirc winds up dating a woman, telling his daughter he's gay; but she's just emasculating in general). That's the symbolism there, certainly. Caden tries to move on by burying himself in his own work; his past just holds negativity and neuroses
The way I see it... Their perspectives. From her pov, everything is smaller than her, details that can fit in a box. From his, everything seems so immense and out of grasp.
Thanks for plagiarizing yms
The film is masterpiece. A study in existential dread: a meditation on living, loving, loss, and dying.
I've probably watched Synecdoche at least 60 times since buying it 3 years ago.
It has played such a pivotal roll in my life, it would take weeks of typing to elaborate. In my opinion, it is the greatest movie that has ever been made. There is nothing like it. There may never be anything else ever like it again.
I have been a professional artist for almost 30 years. As far back as I can remember I knew that I would be an artist. Not hoped... not dreamed... knew. Almost as though I had already lived this life countless times before, knowing what I would be each time through, yet being allowed each time to make new choices that lead to new endings and outcomes (living out the adage: the end is built into the beginning).
As I return again and again to Synecdoche, I am reminded that life and time is precious, love is a gift, sadness happens, time can slip away when you take it for granted, artistic vision isn't life but it matters, honesty can literally save you, that knowing yourself is powerful, that worry is poison, that mystery is beautiful, that pain and loss is inevitable but not until it happens and that we have THIS life we are living is right now... and now... and now... and now... so grab one of those 'nows' and do something powerful with it.
Thank you for doing such a great review of this movie and for spending so much time on it - your work and appreciation is evident and much appreciated. All the best.
this resonates with me in such a deep level. I hope you’re doing okay my friend
I've seen this movie three times now, and I've cried each time I watched it.
The music that plays when Caden learns his father died gives me such a shiver. It just feels so... right. The swift and erratic melody of the synth against the sparse and poignant chords of the piano evoke the stark reality that his loved one has ceased to exist, and that there's nothing else to do but keep on living.
Underrated channel and great video. This movie is phenomenal and I rarely see people do it justice, but this is great!
Still waiting for the next part of YMS’ video on it lol
@@talesfromthetrip ...it's been 17 years.
I just recently thought the "Everyone is Everyone" and "Everything is Everything" lines is symbolized best by who "Ellen" really is. She is (1) Someone Caden is consistently confused for (2) Someone who, upon seeing Caden, assumes her likeness and traits (i.e. the key, cleaning apartment), (3) Someone played by Millicent Weems, (4) Someone whose childhood is played only theatrically, and (5) Someone Millicent possibly used to be.
So my interpretation is Millicent was "Ellen" in the past but so was Caden. Millicent was the persona adopted by that woman when she couldn't bear a child to her husband Eric. And Caden was the persona when he cheated and abandoned his wife and daughter with a lover (Eric). Adele years later sees Caden as "Ellen" but Olive couldn't - thats why she sees "Caden" but processes the events of her abandonment the same.
Each of these moments of connection try to repersonalize Caden with Ellen, but his depression and self-obsessiom leads him to stay fully "Caden". And similarly, Millicent was able to walk on and play "Ellen" and, knowing her past, it represented overcoming a trauma of having been her before. I think that, when she takes over, he's able to venture closer to the truth of his self as "Ellen" more as an Everything-being, a representation of Everyone is Everyone.
Because she was able to play "Ellen" that metaphor, she could play Caden with Ease, whereas he would struggle playing "Ellen" having never fully invested himself in it. It's not a surprise that by the end, he is sitting with Ellen's mother, who is just an actor, reinforcing the artifice yet universality of "Ellen". He is being directed by Millicent-Caden, but that shows he's never able to fully be "Ellen" and he directed to his natural death in the act of depersonalizing from "Caden".
The tear replacement scene, to me, felt like Caden is so wrapped up in theater that he feels must be on the outside how he feels on the inside, even when he is alone for no one to observe.
Also, I feel Caden being asked "When is it opening" can be interpreted differently with the context of the grant he receives and what he tells his therapist he would like to do with it. As the people clearly are depicted to be suffering outside the warehouse, and more psychological less physical suffering inside the warehouse, he is doing more harm than good with his art, therefore bastardizing the very grant he is using to cause suffering. As the person who asks "When is it opening" could actually mean "When is the play moving out so we can use the inside as refuge".
Also, his second daughter asks if she can have a nickel if she doesn't play with her "p*e p*e" anymore, and he simply replies "Yes". Which, I felt meant he no longer cared about making sure his child was using the correct verbiage.
This movie is definitely a message about how focusing on a negative fate will make any fate you actually experience feel like a negative fate. As, especially in theater and cinema, things can be portrayed negatively or positively based on perspective. This movie also seems to deal with perfection and idealism. Caden is focused solely on quality over quantity, whereas his wife had found the balance between them.
I always thought the intensity of introspection and reflection in Charlie Kaufman's work is very close to that found in Kendrick Lamar's work. It's really cool to see dissection of both on your channel.
Boy oh boy! Watched it all till the end! You literally answered all my questions and fully satisfied all my cravings for the explanations! It's an enourmus amout of work and analysis you put right into this video! My deep bow! Well done!
love the movie and this analysis. there’s always a million interpretations for a film like synecdoche.
Excellent exploration of a film that is brilliant on every level.
End of evangelion vibe ending
Incredible, in-depth analysis. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I will absolutely watch the film again with the perspective you shared in mind.
27:13 the "why DID you?.....i said why WOULD you?" is very strange
Incredibly well-produced and thought-out content, keep it up!!
this is an amazing analysis of a movie that requires extremely deep dissection. this is also my favorite movie of all time. well done, this video deserves more views. you are very underrated my friend. imma be watching this quite a few times
such a great channel, and the videos are professionally made , i hope u get to 1 million subs quickly... awesome work. gonna watch everything you made now.
This was a great analysis
My favourite movie from the last decade , This is great man keep going
also the psychologist ladies' last name is Gravis which is also a medical term tacked onto the end of a lot of different diseases meaning they're more virulent than usual. and no I did not know this but felt there was some underlying meaning in her name, as there are in most of the names in the film.
The movie also reflects Ecclesiastes from the Bible. It is an ancient example of some of the themes of this film.
Also the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh is about the meaning of life and inevitably of death.
Both are profound in understand the actual human experience and how to quote Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the Sun
Beautiful analysis, I love this movie. Very underrated, I'll share your content.
everything is everything. thank you for the analysis sir
Great video man, you deserve more engagement.
Thank you for analysis. What a great movie.
Excellent analisys, thank you so much!
Absolutely brilliant analysis of this film.
OH MY GOSH!!! i just thought about this! what if yms is gona try to do some artsy moves and release the final part of the synechdoche new york review when he decides to stop being on youtube? thats be cool!!!!
Good video mate, commenting for the algorithm!
Well done bro! Found the video useful.
Thanks for this
Kaufman said that you basically wanted the movie to operate a living piece ; that basically lives with you.
I was incredibly moved by the movie when I first watched it, and unfortunately for me I could see sort of my future before it unraveled over the course of the movie. Particularly having the daughter and then the relationship falling apart and then that disconnected connection. At the time I had only felt like an abandoned kid by my parents, but I was somehow able to sort of know that my tendencies would probably lead to seperstion
I personally don't reflect any of the main protagonists ok n the slightest which makes every aspect even m on the bizarre for how well it works.
I'm 31 years old, I was 18 and way too intelligent and mature for my own good when I watch this movie in the theater in Atlanta. I was incredibly moved by all of it, it was interesting my brother went with me, and at the end he was like" ehh... it was to Charlie kaufmany"
Move the clock forward to 2015, I show him an analysis of said activity New York, I think it was the year movie sucks RUclips channel. And he felt completely different about the movie Just from watching the first your movie sucks video
We went ahead and watched the movie over and it was his favorite movie.
I personally like adaptation, and personally I think that eternal Sunshine the spotless mind is perfect romance.
Charlie speaks to the introvert intelligent iew.
I'm not a iew; but I battle that internal monologue that perhaps is one wrestling with El so to speak
What's iew?
@@vineethrao30 i think he meant jew el is a jewish word for God
9:25 shes happy because they were honest with eachother about something very deep.
Legendary film.
Kaufman is a genius.
Great video. My only comment on Olive. Caden feels like he should love Olive and should be sad that she threw his gifts away, which is why he forces the tears. But we never actually does anything to get her back or bring her home. He's ultimately incredibly selfish and self involved, and all of his lonliness is of his own making, and alot of the movie is about gis refusal to ackowledge that. Imo.
just watched it. I feel like a dumb person, so im here for the explanation. I'm just flabbergasted.
channel so incredibly underrated. i never comment but you need some algorithm help
YMS would love this video.....Or hate it. Not sure lol
Yeah but YMS wants to fuck dogs….so idk
im 22 and feel so fked up in my life, but realizing that I am so young and just starting
Maybe I didn’t catch it, why did he say there were only 13 million people in the world
That's something that confused me too, and I've thought about. Some interpretations say that it's roughly the population of New York, meaning Caden is so selfish that he literally sees his immediate surroundings as the entire world.
I have a different theory. This movie is centered around the idea of a play within a play, and as time goes on it gets more and more recursive, like Caden's actor getting his own actor, and the warehouse being built within the warehouse, containing its own warehouse, and so on. I'm wondering if maybe this recursion goes on many times, and we're only seeing a slice of it. Of course, since Caden has to hire actors to play all the parts, each recursion contains fewer and fewer people than the last. Caden's world contains 13 million people, and he's hired some thousands of people to play the parts, and within the play, Sammy (acting as Caden) presumably hires a smaller number of people to act in the play within the second warehouse, and so on.
So maybe Caden isn't even the "real" Caden, he's an actor in the chain, and his world is notably smaller than the real world. We don't see the director behind the scenes, we just see what he's produced from the actors' perspectives.
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There's so many clues that Caden is in the closet, but I never made sense of it.
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Written by a four year old?
Profoundly interesting and through provoking ideas. But It's scale exceeds the capacity of any movie to illustrate, and i ended up feeling bored and confused. 3/5 stars.
Yes but our health care system is arguably better. Because it’s “free” means less incentive to take care of you. Our doctors have incentive, which is why the UK is notorious for not taking care of its people health wise
I have full ass insurance. I have been to 6 doctors in 10 years and not a single one has thought themselves qualified to take care of a wart. They kept sending me to a dermatologist who just sampled it and said it's a wart. Then the dermatologist would try and fix the wart but they wanted 1k and it was below my deductible. So much better, love it.
@@skankmcgank couldn’t agree more. Living in America is a privilege and an honor. We have the best country as far as economics, military, and political system.
@@PROZxT98 uh huh. I'm old as hell man, you are very much incorrect. Whatever we had is gone and is getting worse. I am jealous of your ability or disability that causes your blissful naivete.
@@PROZxT98 lmao you're from Oklahoma. I lived there for like a year, it's ridiculous. Good smoke, but I guess you know that, based on your podcasts, and how stoney they are.
This is a load of crap peddled by right wing pundits.
Ugh...too long man. Got a good laugh trying to skip through it seeing you discuss tangential things. It's not an easy movie to explain but it shouldn't take this long.
Might try my own review eventually. I understood it last time I watched it, just a bit hazy right now
It says “in-depth” lul
Good video mate, commenting for the algorithm!