Unfortunately, Brandon spend the bulk of Wednesday night at the pet hospital sitting with our kitty Petra as she recovered from surgery (she's doing good now), and then Thursday night we spent the evening watching the Laker game with some friends. So, we spent the day at home Friday taking care of Petra and decided to have a triple feature! Here's the first one we watched that day.
Watching Synecdoche, New York after watching Revolver was a very interesting juxtaposition. It kind of hurt my head like Revolver did, but I really wanted to understand this one, while I just wanted to get far away from Revolver. The premise isn't simple, the characters aren't exactly relatable or easy to understand, the pacing is odd and time doesn't seem to flow in any discernible way, and yet I was drawn in. Brandon had the opposite reaction and was repelled by all the things that kept me interested. As I mentioned when discussing Revolver, I love weird and this was a much more comforting type of weird for me. I felt like some of the really awful things that happened were throw in for shock value, such as [spoiler] the revelation that Olive was basically abused and brain washed by her mother's friend before she died of some awful disease [/spoiler] but mostly I enjoyed the off-kilter, not quite believable world that was created. My "suspension of disbelief" switch is easily flipped, so getting into that mindset wasn't difficult for me. Once you have established a bizarre world, as long as you follow the rules you have set up for it I am willing to follow you pretty much anywhere. I think this movie was able to do that, and although it was pretty depressing it was still an interesting character study, even if the characters weren't realistic.
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