One recent film added for the sake of adding highly regraded films on an updated 1,001 list.Remember the film "Vanilla Sky" where Tom Cruise's character is deformed in the car accident and pays the company to essentially freeze his body, but still have his mind living in some alternate universe that only exists in his own head.
The thing is, Cruise's character had to indicate to the company when he wanted to start the alternate reality. Unfortunately, the viewer doesn't know when this happens and so we believe the alternate reality is the reality reality never realizing the alternate had started.
This is how I feel about "Synecdoche, New York." I knew the other reality was coming and instead of there being a break or a moment when you knew it happened, it just happened. As if there was no reality reality. All there is is this odd, alterno-reality.
This is a really great film and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is fantastic and the merry-go-round of characters and twists is confusing at times, but it's worth watching.
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