synecdoche, new york
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Another mind bender by the highly skilled Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche New York
Synecdoche: Noun. A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Synopsis: Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, ...