Synonyms of New York: Life is like a play, play is like life

Carmella 2022-09-04 12:02:29

Everyone is like this... everyone is going to die... we are all heading towards death... and at some point, we are here, alive... but we all know we will die.. ...but secretly believing that we will escape death

This is the first film directed by Charlie Kaufman in 2008, and it is also of great significance to him. Kaufman's works are novel, restrained, but profound in meaning. After watching a feature film, you can taste the things Much more interesting or absurd than watching the movie itself.

Starting from the most recent film "Disorder" , Charlie Kaufman has directed only four works so far, namely: "New York Synonymy" in 2008, "Frank and Francis" in 2014, and "Frank and Francis" in 2015. Abnormal and How and Why in the same year . Although there are not many works directed by him, there are many catchy and highly praised works written by him. We are familiar with "Puppet Life" (played by Spike Jones), "The Eternity of a Beautiful Mind". Sunshine ( Michelle Gondry ), Adapted Screenplay ( Spike Jones ), Dialogue with Dangerous Thoughts (George Clooney)... Charlie Kaufman rarely goes to the real Describing real-life stories, "New York Synonyms" is a film. To be precise, this is a film that explores meaning. Charlie Kaufman is trying to tell us the relationship between the past and the present, and the relationship between death and us. meaning.

When I watched this film, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. I was in a bad mood and was full of emotions. I remembered another movie "Manchester by the Sea" I watched before, and suddenly felt that I couldn't hide from loneliness. It is in my heart, not far, not near, not biased, you can see, hear, feel, but you can't forget it.

The words of Mr. Shi Tiesheng can express this meaning: some things are only suitable for collection, not to be said, not to be thought, but not to be forgotten. They cannot become languages, they cannot become languages, and once they become languages ​​they cease to be them. They are a hazy warmth and loneliness, a mature hope and despair, and their territory has only two places: the heart and the grave. For example, stamps, some are used for sending letters, and some are just for collection.

Mourning culture is a made-up culture, but this "culture" is deeply rooted in people's hearts. The TV broadcast of "New York Synonyms" broadcasts propaganda clips about the meaninglessness of life. What is in front of us is also death and loneliness. Wife Lark abandoned her husband Cortard, took her daughter to fly away, released her original desire as a homosexual, and married Maria, Cortard missed the past, but could not pass .

So, he put all his thoughts on his plays. His day-in and day-out efforts were rewarded with the encouragement of the MacArthur Award, but what the money gave him was actually greater loneliness and the plump conductors During the one-night stand, I think about the result of my imminent death, and I can no longer enjoy the moment.

The loneliness of many people is that he realized the truth of fate only after death. Cortard is such a person. A person's life is a drama. Inside and outside the drama, it is life. Kaufman The director uses line drawing to outline life, and the meaning contained in the images of the films we see is actually ourselves.

You see cheating, love, one-night stand, your life must be full of ordinary, soaked in firewood, rice, oil and salt.

If you see mourning, thoughts, and meaning, then your life must be confused and hesitant.

You see money, you see desire...

Look, life is like this, no matter what the process is, the ending is the same. The male protagonist Kotard saw a person who played himself. He spent his life trying to imitate Kotard. He never pursued his own things. Live in Cortard's world like a real actor. He is like Cortard in the spiritual world. He said what Cortard did not dare to say and did what Cortard did not dare to do. He was Cortard's id, and finally completed his life for Cortard. Redemption - suicide by jumping off a building.

Life is like a play, play is like life, maybe we are all Cortard, maybe we are all Truman, but in this world, we live too much like ourselves, dare not say, dare not do, like a dull Actors, earnestly and earnestly complete their tasks.

At the end of the film, Cortard imagines that there is a person around him who controls his actions. He imagines that he is a character in his play, following a dramatic story throughout his life. A play is over, everyone is dead, and Cortard is lying in the arms of the woman he loves, dying quietly.

After watching this movie, I was stunned for a long time, an urban drama about New York, which condenses a huge city into a "projectile"-sized theater. The manuscript I write now is already a fragment written in the script. Maybe what I want to express is exactly the story that the author who wrote the world of "I" wants to express. I can't find the beginning of the world, but I can find out where it ends. , Just like everyone is trying their best to live, but they don't know that no one can escape the clutches of death. The same is true when watching Kaufman's "Disorder", and the same is true when watching "Warm and Containing Light", life is like a farce, no matter what, there is no escape from the script, Charlie Kaufman is deep. It was only after a deep understanding of this point that I created such a profound and philosophical work. Although the story is not satisfactory in terms of visual expression, the perfect script makes it difficult for me to give up my love for this film.

Life is like moths to fire, not everyone can live according to their own life.

Don't let yourself live too much like a script. Don't take life too seriously.

Synonyms of New York, a movie book that needs to be read carefully.

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Extended Reading
  • Norval 2022-04-25 06:01:01

    I finally become a director myself! The ability to enter and exit time and space is also too strong!

  • Brooke 2022-04-25 06:01:01

    Exactly the kind of shit you wanna steer clear off

Synecdoche, New York quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Caden Cotard: Olive, it's daddy!

  • Hazel: I'm okay.

    Caden Cotard: I don't want you to be okay.