Sammy sightings in almost every scene.
A commercial in the beginning has Sammie in it.
The TV scene with the fog is the last scene.
The scene with Millicent and her mom at a picnic is a commercial in the beginning.
What are some things you've noticed.
In the cartoon the guy falling with a parachute that will not open is Caden.
During Caden's rainy day solo therapy session, one of the the books on Madeleine's coffee table is entitled "It's Raining Too Loud".
The bus stop shelter Caden is waiting in has a poster advertising the movie "Little Winky and Caden"
That the time 7:45 appears at both the beginning and the end of the film and is mentioned in Ellen's monologue.
This maybe just me misunderstanding things. When Hazel meets up with Caden in New York. She tells him she has twins. But she names 3 boys and later on we see three boys not two boys.
shareAt the start of the film Caden is looking (dead) in one mirror while the radio show goes on in the background...when he sits up his reflection is in a second mirror seperate from the first
Also..the Kitchen breakfast sceen...Adele makes breakfast for the daughter and then as time goes by quickly she also serves the daughter lunch in the same sceen .
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I noticed that the intense feelings of depression I felt the first time weren't a fluke.
No film downs me like Synecdoche downs me. I think it's an incredible work, but man, what it takes out of me.
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You're right to point that out, manny. I can't explain it, but the ridiculousness of the more moving scenes doesn't make them less moving -- his father's death, for example, is very funny, yet I end up tearing up.
That old saying about "laughing through your tears" has been put on its head by this movie; more like, "crying through our chuckles".
Maybe it's just that damnably saddening score. Put it in a Wheaties ad and I'd start sobbing.
I don't think she's making Olive lunch... Olive asks for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, so it seems Adele takes the oatmeal away and makes Olive what she asked for, saying "You'd better eat this". Maybe it's supposed to be breakfast on a later morning?
shareI just saw it for the third time today. Many scenes that were painful the first two times were now hilariously funny (particularly Olive's death scene, the moment when Caden talks about his father's death bed speech, etc), and lots of other overlooked laughs reared their heads...but the cumulative effect was the same. I still felt a reverential silence come over me at the end. Strange that a movie can be so painful and still so comforting at the same time. I'm not sure, but it just might be my favorite movie of all time.
when it came out, i thought this is the future of cinema. not literally of course but i saw it as a master piece of major proportions. i thought it would sweep through the oscars like a hot knife through butter. then avatar and hurt locker made it. and i looked up the commercial side of the movie and i realized: i had turned into a member of a minority audience.
i think synecdoche does a lot in each detail and reaches your mind and subconsciousness on many different layers. you just feel the density of the scenes build in scenes, the many cross references. one senses the shere amount of thought that went into the making of this picture.
i wonder about some "technicalities" in the tragic scenes which make you laugh kind of at the same time, like the mentioned olive dying sceen. i ask myself if the actors play "comedy" on an undercurrent level and thus promote the hidden humor, or if the play "straight tragic" and it is the absurd setting that makes you smile. i believe it is the latter, but i'm not sure.
The feature article about Adele, in the copy of ELLE that he picks up in the waiting room. On first viewing I saw the headline "It's good to be Adele". On second viewing, I saw that the first paragraph includes something like, "Adele was stuck in a dead-end marriage to a slovenly ugly-face husband..."
shareWhat is the "TV scene with the fog" that you refer to?
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