Charlie Kaufman is well-known for his unique screenplays. Examples of this are Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Synechdoche, New York kan can be added to this. For this movie Kaufman has stepped into the director’s chair.
The movie follows the life of Cayden Cotard (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Passage of time goes quickly, sometimes you are years into the future in just a couple of minutes. The movie also contains, although this is not unexpected, a lot of surrealistic elements that start to play a bigger part in the story as the movie progresses. This ends in a very dreamlike state. This isn’t annoying though, as i thought it made this film more exciting for it. If previous Kaufman stories fascinated you, than this one will also have that effect on you.
Score: 8