{"id":2109,"date":"2009-06-07T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2009-06-07T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:01:08","slug":"synecdoche-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Synecdoche, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mixed feelings about Charlie Kaufman&#8217;s work.  I loved <em>Adaptation<\/em>, but consider <em>Being John Malkovich<\/em> to be one of the worst movies of all time.  I&#8217;ve seen all of his movies, and I&#8217;ll probably keep watching, but I hope they get better.<\/p>\n<p>He can be terribly entertaining, but usually he&#8217;s wasting time trying to be profound.  I understood <em>Synecdoche, NY<\/em> just fine, but I didn&#8217;t really like it.  It&#8217;s not that the idea isn&#8217;t worth exploring, but it can be done in better ways.  Aside from a scene early on in the movie, <em>Synecdoche<\/em> was not entertaining.  I think many people will hate the movie simply because they don&#8217;t understand it, which is a perfectly valid reason to dislike it.  It&#8217;s not easily understood, but I don&#8217;t think that understanding it makes it much better.<\/p>\n<p>It could just be that I&#8217;m in a foul mood and would have liked it better if I were happier at the moment, but I&#8217;m not and didn&#8217;t.  I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it to anyone who&#8217;s bothered by non-coherent plots.  Many people (Kelsey, for instance, and possibly Ben) will think it&#8217;s absolutely brilliant.  As for me, I think Charlie Kaufman is a little too self-absorbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mixed feelings about Charlie Kaufman&#8217;s work. I loved Adaptation, but consider Being John Malkovich to be one of the worst movies of all time. I&#8217;ve seen all of his movies, and I&#8217;ll probably keep watching, but I hope they get better. He can be terribly entertaining, but usually he&#8217;s wasting time trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}