@tomwingfields synecdoche is DIFFFICULT— i do think it is so so fantastic and i really love watching it and i cry a lot (it’s probably just psh though). and i love ~death as man’s final creation~ (i wrote my dissertation on it!) but here death doesn’t even feel salvational(?) for him? and for me it just feels so hopeless and narcissistic (nothing new) and self-deprecating of kaufman. his chaotic ego is just kind of repulsive to me i dunno? like , no, this great work didn’t happen because you couldn’t make it happen because it exists above your ego ! but i’m not a writer/artist/performer etc so maybe i just can’t relate to wanting to create something so badly…. that being said i do enjoy watching it a lot and the ending “their meagre sadness is yours” floors me completely and philip’s final lines are ASTOUNDING. also i DO KNOW that whoever cast emily watson and samantha morton as EACH OTHER has their third eye wide open.
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