The Absurdist Philosophy Of Synecdoche, New York
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An examination of Albert Camus, the myth of Sisyphus, and the absurdist philosophy of Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York.
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I think the beauty of Synecdoche, New York lies in it being open to interpretation; open for you to give meaning to, and so the main goal of this video was not to give a beat by beat breakdown of the film, but rather provide a lens or perspective for you to take with you the next time (or maybe the first time) you watch this amazing film.
Your sensitive, gentle yet sharply inquisitive approach, to even the darkest of themes, still surprises me. I`m glad that this planet has spawned a creative and humane person like you: ). Thanks for another meaningful feast for thought.
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I think people are thinking too deep into it about it have no meaning, the very last scene pretty much explains everything that its about. "What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this. " We all have the same general experience, the same general anxieties, worries, the same "existence". That last line about "it is time for you to understand this" is a clarifying message imo about the purpose and intent of the movie. We arnt anybody, we are everybody.
The last 30 minutes of this film are nothing short of some of the best moments in cinematic history. Truly profound.
Also then biggest reason "people" didn't enjoy it. So cool he followed 3 badass, over the top films with a more muted, nuanced, and truthful look at one man's life and being so truthful is what draws us fans towards it. This film is like Jennifer Jason Lee in "Anomlisa". .... Finally something that you truly resonate. Absurdism is the only "ism" that rings true to me.
What tf is it about ? The last minutes ?
@@dzungphan2665Just watch it. The less you know about it, the better. Trust me.
I have had too many existential crises, especially starting around childhood, pondering what is the point of it all. My personal philosophy of life is evolving as I grow, but I think my purpose is to develop meaningful relationships with kind people, gain mastery over something so I can contribute to the world, regulate negative emotions and intentionally try to cultivate positive emotions, and try to be present and and appreciative of the finite existence I have. It's important to embrace the melancholy of how sometimes life doesn't make sense sometimes, and once those feelings are felt, attempting to find a positive spin to the meaning of things, whether it's celebrating beauty or the joy of human connection.
Exactly! Sitting with those thoughts is important, but we can't let them control us. Revel in the absurdity of life :)
Indeed, existentialism seems like a rather soothing philosophy - which is not seen often.
Eerie. I have almost identical aspirations. I fee less alone. Thank you for your comment!
What if they lose their meaning? Celebrating or beauty or joy or human connection...Not why but how do you exist in a world without meaning?
This is exactly the point I've now reached. Glad to see someone else has the exact same thoughts :)
I miss Philip Seymour Hoffman. A very fine actor.
Mauro Vargas me too 😞
Mauro Vargas He definitely played more than his share of fucked up roles.
Caden Cotard was his best role
I think that’s an understatement
Me as well
The fact that Philip Seymour Hoffman died in real life just makes the movie even more painfully real. In some parts it feels like he wasn't even acting and that he was living out his real troubled life on screen. Its unfortunate that this film is the only way we can see what Hoffman might have looked like as he aged. He was truly one of the best actors of his generation
It took three years, but I found this comment, and I agree.
@@InuranusBrokoffand here I am 2 years later at the end of the same journey
@@pokellector8685and I am here 4 days later eating a lovely eggplant parmigiana.
This film makes me re-experience, and reflect on my own life. Powerful film, both life-affirming and existential- in equal parts. With Philip Seymour Hoffman's death, there is an additional layer to contemplate and I feel that with time, this story will remain timeless.
One of the greatest films in recent memory, I find new meaning in it every time I see it. I've often even considered revisiting the film as a subject for a new video, as my views have continually morphed and evolved as life changes around me. I think you did a beautiful job of not nailing everything down as fact, but sort of guiding people in the right direction. Charlie Kaufman's work is so powerful because it's able to connect with people in ways that few movies can, and more importantly, the movie begins to take the shape of our own perceptions, it's like each one of his films is an infinite number of films built into one. Everyone walks away with something different, each time they see it, and I really can't think of any other screenwriter capable of producing such thought provoking work.
Congrats on 80,000 subscribers by the way!
I agree :) Thanks!
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This guy is something else
@@LikeStoriesofOld wow in 3 years you have gained exactly 400K followers!! so inspiring to never stop never give up because you never know where you’ll be ✨ thanks for everything man
This is a tough film to crack. Good job
I like what you did at the end. Nice allusion to the text. "We must imagine Cayden happy"
Nice catch! :)
Keanu Clark The Myth of Sisyphus has one of the greatest openings, “there is but one true philosophical issue, and that is the question of suicide” (paraphrasing) . What a way to suck you in
You mean to the Camus text or to the Myth of Sisyphus ?
“That final moment when all of our experiences and revelations disappear into nothing.” So true. All the knowledge, wisdom, growth we obtain throughout our life ultimately is gone in an instant. So use it as best you can while you can, pass it along to those around you by allowing it to guide who you are and how you interact with others-be an example.
Colin Woods if you believe YOLO. And that we are separate. Another way of looking at it is we are everyone. The collective consciousness collects all experience, all memory, all lives lived as the cycles turn and we incarnate as everyone eventually.
Mate there's no evidence either way on what happens after we die ... Or before we are born either. If by nothing you mean that which is foundational and noumenal then sure, if you mean it all absences and disappears ... Then meh, that's as much an article of faith as saying it all stays and remains.
Synecdoche, New York is one of those art works, like Waiting for Godot or Au Hasard Balthazar that leaves you almost stunned by its brilliance, even if you are not entirely sure what you just witnessed. In many ways this is my favorite film of all time. I have had "The Myth of Sisyphus" on the shelf for years and you have inspired me to finally pick it up and read it. Terrific work, very thoughtful, much appreciated.
This is actually my favorite film of all time, i've watched it time and time again- in different states of thought, and love what i grab from it.
Something that’s very odd about this movie that I don’t see talked about very often is the world it takes places in. The bombs you can hear going off outside the apartment building in Berlin, the zeppelins with spotlights you see in the distance in the balcony party scene, Caden’s remark that “there’s 13 million people in the world”, all very intriguing.
I realize it’s not really relevant to the plot or themes of the film but I’d love to know what is going on there, whether it’s what’s really happening or just Caden’s interpretation of it.
The bombs going off outside his apartment buildings is a hallucination/scene meant to represent his own anxieties on his own mortality, the zeppelins with spotlights are probably his dream of him and his work being recognized while it happens even though his only original work goes unfinished when he dies 50 years later, and the "13 million people" remark of his is the amount of actor's he has in his play, with his play essentially being his "world" as he is subsumed and consumed by it.
why is this so perfect
how can your videos be the most energizing thing possible?
His message is to suppress the truth of reality in order to preserve a false sense of joy and happiness. This type of message energizes you?
well you clearly misinterpreted his thesis.
glad to see you here!! it means his audience is growing , the more the merrier , even vapid haters are showing up! welcome to the community
seriously though , are you comparing his videos to this? th-cam.com/video/T-2YuPGYabw/w-d-xo.html film essayers aren't WatchMojo
ze - Really confused on why you referred to me as a vapid hater, but I won't sink that low. It is what it is.
Are you sure I misinterpreted his thesis or did I just unmask what he's saying underneath? The point of the video is that we live in a godless and meaningless universe where we are basically born to die, "the ending built in the beginning." But like the tragic figure destined to push a rock up the hill for all eternity, we can choose to acknowledge the absurdity of our existence and not allow it to drive us to despair. Instead, we can enjoy the temporary lives we have and attempt to savor the small amounts of joy that pop up in between the tragic destination of ultimate and final death. This is his thesis, friend. It's explicit.
Underneath this stoic façade of happiness is pure suppression of truth, which is the edifice that holds the façade together, which can't be held back, no matter how much mental gymnastics a person can perform. This type of worldview is, as Camus rightly observed, absurd.
what do you preach?
i mean what is your ideology and what religion do your believe in that is clashing with NOT ONLY this video's atheist subject matter
but also the FILM'S theme , which also was't very after-lifely , how else can i get the context to assure you that his "perfection" is nothing but a subjective compliment not on his VIDEO'S TOPIC , but the presentation of his essay , which could've been about anything if presented like this
just because you disagree with him , does't make his video bad, but this last line im typing is an assumption
Great job man!
I watched this movie in January this year, it left me with a taste of dread, suffering and nothingness in my mouth that is hard to put into words, yet I was slightly hopeful knowing that the experience is almost universal, everyone is feeling the same that I had and will feel in the future. It's painfully beautiful. I felt 'naked' for a week or so, which is something I can only say about a handful of movies. Of course the movie is about so many things and I think you will get different answers depending on what moment of your life you are traversing.
I love your videos and the way you approach complex and philosophical ideas in somewhat popular media is great, so you tackling what I believe to be one of the most complex and insightful movies about the human condition of the past decade is great. A great example of 'show, don't tell'.
I would hope you make more videos about this movie, but just giving it attention is amazing.
Fabián Pino beautifully said my brother.
Not everyone feels what you had felt. There are legions of individuals who are utterly ignorant of things beyond their present pursuits and goals. They look no further at life than what it can do for them, and where I'd once considered them fools, I now think of their abject blindness as a blessing to their soul. And I'm truly envious of that simpler way of being.
The universal fact of life is that everyone has to deal with existence in one way or another. Most ways are seemingly valid and have reasons to be so, from joining a religion or following some metaphysical answer to ease the pain and rejoin with your spiritual side, to following materialistic gains and an easier wellbeing, to devoting your life to an artistic pursuit. Thing is (in my interpretation), the movie points to the idea that no matter what you do or who you are, there's no blessing or curse, everyone will walk some of the same steps, from feeling lost because you question your identity, to longing for a love that wasn't meant to be or maybe questioning your fatherhood/motherhood or the lack of it. No matter the culture, wealth, education or gender.
The legions of people that don't really care about existence also have to put up with the weight of these questions, maybe not in same words of Camus, Nietzsche or Kierkegaard, but in their own lens with their own answers, some being better and some being worse, but trying like everyone else.
This movie freaked me out a bit, def thought about it and felt a bit uneasy for a few days after seeing it for the first time back in 2011. Good movie tho i own it now. Rest in peace Philip Seymour Hoffman
I’ve been waiting for someone to connect Camus to this film, in detail. Glad it was you. Well done, as usual.
That ending had me welling up, I consider your content an enlightening part of my own human experience LSOO, please keep doing your thing
This seems like my kind of movie. It's strange how once we were children and would look at these sorts of films as boring. All we wanted to watch was power rangers and yet, now, I find myself being that "boring" man...but it isn't unless you think so.
- - very true
When you're young (in these types of societies anyway) you are in league with a consciousness that doesn't want you looking at anything that reminds of any truth of what kind of reality this is. Then for example, you would be bearing in mind that likes of the superhero stuff is your own stolen truth being sold back to you as plastic and fiction.
I think I watched this too early (kid)...like I understood everything, but that’s the thing. I understand now. Whats to come, what’s to pass, what’s to happen, like I see the truth. I see it now. And the truth hurts it really does. Though, I’m going to try my best not to be a victim of the game like Caden. But no matter how different I try to be, our fate is still to be the same. So in the end, I’m just going to try to live life in the now doing what I love with the people I love
I think experience brings appreciation. You just can't understand certain things without having seen or experienced other things. Very few children are watching this film and saying "Ah, and so at the end of her life, the daughter provokes her father into admitting to being a homosexual. How droll. Truly this moment stands as an analogue for all human communication."
Hopefully you enjoyed
"Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes
when we have to carry it. We live on the future: "tomorrow," "later on," "when you have made your way,"
"you will understand when you are old enough." Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it' s a
matter of dying." - Albert Camus.
You sir, are doing an amazing job. Not only is the myth of Sisyphus my all time favorite, but Camus interpretation of it had a massive impact on my life. I really appreciate the work you do and it continues to inspire me to try writing even though I don’t think I have any talent for it hehe. If our paths ever cross, I wanna buy you a beer ;)
Brilliant essay and fantastic film, I was mesmerised by it when I saw it. So beautifully bleak but your analysis articulated the meaning well, thanks.
I was kinda lost after watching the film, though I knew I just watched a masterpiece. This essay reassured me, and gave some supply for a second viewing.
Thanks for your work!
exactly my feelings
"We must imagine Caden Happy"
Aaah I see what you did there :')
This is probably my favorite analysis on Synecdoche. Such a great idea to frame it in Camus philosophy :')
More people needs to see your content.
great essay! i absolutely adore this film, its my favorite of all time (I love using a Camus-inspired lens for Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes and Herzog's Stroszek too)
There are several good videos about this movie, but yours is undoubtedly the best. Really wonderful job with this, thank you.
I know what I'm watching tonight
Orson Welles LSD
I watched this and didn't understand it. But boy did I feel depressed and not know why.
I think my subconscious understood.
@@Daelion164 it's a an existential clusterfuck and I love it.
@@bennielopez4981 best way to put it
The most poignant, yet, cathartic truth that holds dominion over mans experience of life
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Please never stop making this videos-essays they're great!
Wow, just wow. This is a seriously a great video and frankly a meticulous but concise analysis of Kaufman's masterpiece. You really deserve more subs, but anyways you've just got yourself a fan :) keep up the great videos!
Beautiful work LSOO. This movie obliterated many constructs in my mind. And It definitely made me look places in my mind I didn't know or didn't want to know.
This was a challenging film for me. Thank you for your wise perspective, LSOO.
The grey screen fade in and fade out is a nice touch. Great video
if i was to die and be reborn...your wisdom, LSOO, would be the one thing i would pray to carry with me to the next life.
What was the wisdom you took from this video?
mortality and our stagnant schedules that we inherit from the ones before us that we pass down to the ones who come after us. this is the very vanity of our existence (or so we make it so)
mercy - That's empirical information.
how so bob
mercy - Based on your initial answer to my question, he just stated the obvious for you. If that's wisdom, then saying, "When it rains, people get wet", makes me a wise man if I point that out for you
Beautiful video for what is most likely my favorite film. Thank you!
Perfect Video! All human suffering is at the very core connected to our complete fear of our existence coming to an end. But accepting this as a fact and still enjoying the ride is all we can do. Loved the movie and number 1 fan of Camus. Great Analysis!
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on this damn platform.
I can't stop watching this video again and again!
Subscribing to your channel. This breakdown was amazing.
What a coincidence! I'm nearly through reading The Myth of Sisyphus, but never saw this movie. It's interesting to see Camus' philosophy applied, or at least used for interpretation.
I like Camus' absurd consideration of actors, thus explaining how the best have to act.
"We must imagine Caden happy" made me cry, man. Thank you so much for this ❤
I gained access to this movie, after watching your analysis and thoughts. The movie has been sitting there, as if I weren't ready for it. I am both tempted and afraid that I am not ready, exhausted by life commitments. No, I need to find time, time for myself. Thank you for reminding me that.
Also like how the hell don’t you have a million subs yet is beyond me; amazing work!
I'm crying
I've seen this film 2 times no, still not tired of binge-watching videos about it
I thought this was a YMS vid at first. Good job with this, great movie!
Also very reminiscent of Heidegger and Nietzsche. Very nice video essay. Keep'em coming. Would love to collab with you sometime.
Can I just say that ever since I found your channel I have been completely in awe with it. Your videos are not only beautiful but also so extremely well put together! I would love for you to analyze La Grande Bellezza by Sorrentino. I am now writing an essay on Camus and this film and I would love to hear your thoughts.
I love Sorrentino! Definitely hope to tackle one of his films at some point :)
I love that film, so I second your request! But I would also enjoy your thoughts on it, given your study; how's the essay coming along?
Spaz: The Spastic Colonel It was just a short essay, but I borrowed thoughts from David Foster Wallace regarding sincerity and analyzed three scenes, the one on the balcony with Jep and his friends, the flamingo scene and the end- and tried to argue for something hinting at a progression towards sincerity :) It was a lot of fun!
Emma K It does sound like an interesting lens to view the film through - it immediately made me think of the funeral scene, where Jep breaks down despite his instructions against crying to his protégé. Always gets to me. I have read a lot of Wallace, but I'm curious if you referenced a particular passage or work regarding sincerity; I can't think of one specifically, off the top of my head.
I'm also curious about how you've enjoyed Sorrentino's other work: I started with This Must Be The Place, which was like a wacky miracle, then saw both Great Beauty and Youth shortly after, and I really couldn't pick between them; I was gobsmacked by both. I've gone through Young Pope a couple times now, and whilst fascinating, I confess I really don't understand it (though I could say that about a lot of art!). I seem to recall other films being out there, but I haven't got a hold of them yet. Something to look forward to! Cheers, Spaz.
Spaz: The Spastic Colonel Spaz: The Spastic Colonel I mainly used his essay E Unibus Pluram regarding television and US fiction (especially the parts where one goes into some sort of hyper awareness and the attitude towards television and watching it cynically was I thought very interesting). I have never actually seen The Pope, but I find that sometimes the most confusing ones are also the most interesting!
Took me three days from your realese to watch the movie.
As always,
Thank you for the recommendation,
Thank you for the prespective.
P.s:
Started reading Seneca,
Partly because of you,
Again - thank you.
Love.
Beautiful interpretation. I was not a fan of this movie but you managed to find the best parts that made this movie not terrible. Again, keep making great videos and philosophising - your channel is by far my favourite
Just perfect! Thank you
loved the text. very deep and understandable
God, this is exactly where I am this moment. I have realized that no matter what I pursue, or how relentlessly, the fulfillment of my hopes and goals won't ever be attained, and even if they were, it would still not bring joy or happiness to my heart or soul. Even if I find love, even the perfect love I'd held onto hope of finding so long, all my life, even that is certain to wither and die and once again be lost to me. I don't know how to find my way out of this place. I don't know how to find peace in my soul. I don't know how to find the light. I am so impossibly angry and sorrowful at the entirety of existence that I don't know what to do any more. Hope is truly lost to me.
That you begin your comment with the word "God" is such a lovely irony, and reading the rest of your comment as a prayer made it more true to me than most any prayer I've ever heard. I read a fantastic article by a physicist who has spent his entire life studying, researching, and writing about Time. It was remarkable because the nihilistic reaction to inevitable death exists only because of time--and, as the article describes, time is essentially a human illusion, created to make sense of all the stimuli coming at us. It goes on to say that in actuality, there is neither time nor objects. It says, "there are no things," and that past or future do not exist either. In that light, it may be easier to see that we all live all at once, expressed frozen in a cosmic amber, features of infinity that neither arrived nor departed. I've wallowed for years in the thoughts and feelings you describe, but for myself have come to see that there is a magick in this multiverse, and that all being and awareness belong to infinity, they grow, reach to awaken, and yet remain eternally unchanged. We float in a grand mystery, which is the whole of the delight. The film "The Tree of Life" expresses all this beautifully for me (including the remedy to personal death sorrow, in the life Malik describes as the path of grace), a film LSOO has also done a great video on.
Love this! Do you know the name of that article? :)
now go watch YourMovieSucks 5 part video analysis for more more more
jay folk if he ever finishes it
The Film Freak beauty being its a project about the passage of time, futility, and procrastination.
jay folk I agree completely, but come on so we can hear his thoughts on the ending
The Film Freak a better wait than that album hes been working on. or shit, anything he isnt cynical of.
I love how meta those videos became once time started slipping through his fingers and YEARS passed by without him finishing it.
Man, how I love this movie. There is so much things to think about this great film and, in this case, you did it very good with the subject from Camus. I remeber when I wrote a poem about the synecdoche (in the human context), it was a very long night. Now, what is next? Anomalisa? Anyway, thank you for these videos.
I literally just watched it, and it's dark in here, no more spooking please
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Nice work Erika
The struggle is enough to fill our hearts.
Got a certain ring to it.
Jon Brion's Little Person seems to hint at the salvation that Caden needed. The entire length of the song plays when Caden first courts Hazel (or vice versa). The answer to the unanswerable question of existence is to be found in the moments that matter.
Brilliant, thank you.
The Myth of Sisyphus "Essays by Albert Camus"
only of my favs as well as the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1:10 your spiel here sounds like the funeral monologue in the movie
Incredible video about an incredible film
Thank you at many levels
I watched this last night. Can't shake that feeling I got from the ending. Goddamn.... :/
You sir are a brilliant story philosopher
Amazing job as always. Really.
Speaking of "open to interpretation"... do you have ever seen Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio?
I know it's not a conventional movie at all, it's un-personal yet it remain quite deep in terms of meaning...
Regarding your format, it could be a challenge :)
that movie is brilliant. the whole trilogy.
i had to love this film for itsfixation on the meta-level. i simply love to think like that "about" thinks, instead of thinking "through" them - in this case it is pushed to the absurd, and is itself shown as an absurd act, too many levels of meta-thinking, with no core inside of them. a synecdoche about a synecdoche - nothing behind it (nothing but new york, which can probably at best be understood as a symbol for "this is the experience of many, of all of us." or maybe just of life, since the lifes of the main characters are taking place in new york.)
This film really breaks me like nothing else.
The absurd as a trap - poetic limbo; Plato offers an alternative, perhaps
what kind of alternative to you refer to?
Beautiful and insightful as all your other videos. Question: What is the name of the painting/image at 4:25?
Typical french philosopher absolutely consumed by their indulgence in nihilism. Yes, everything has an end, and so all that should do even for the realist is to not think that all that he sees in his day is meaningless/facade/etc. but that the fleetingness of beauty, love, innocence, truth all make it more profound and that they are there to be witnessed in that moment of consciousness and not toys that sit on the shelf of an otherwise meaningless existence
Camus wasn't a Nihilist at all and basically argued what you are arguing, that the answer to life's meaningless is to continue on living, enjoying life's simple pleasures even though it's ultimately meaningless.
One of my favorite movies ever, and so many people refuse to see it because it’s “too weird” “artsy” etc. I wish this movie got the success and glory it deserved.
I loved this movie but wasn’t sure why. Maybe just because Charlie Kaufman wrote the script. I like your perspective...
Its beautiful! Well, can you tell me which music you used in the background?
Please do an explanation video of this explanation ;)
Cottard was also a character from Camus' novel The plague
I think people are thinking too deep into it about it have no meaning, the very last scene pretty much explains everything that its about. "What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this. " We all have the same general experience, the same general anxieties, worries, the same "existence". That last line about "it is time for you to understand this" is a clarifying message imo about the purpose and intent of the movie. We arnt anybody, we are everybody.
Very interesting analysis. I wonder if Kaufman is in fact showing up the limits of the absurdist approach. I have always felt Camus Sartre et al. offer a philosophy of horror for people who don’t work and who don’t read newspapers. It is impossible to imagine Sisyphus as happy. He needs company. And only when Caden looks beyond his own solipsistic worldview , when he begins to imagine the world as another person sees it - Ellen - does he start to become sympathetic. Before that, even the death of Sammy is only understood in terms of the play.
No movie emotionally broke me down like this one did.
Yes! My favourite movie plus my favourite philosopher!
Amazing video man, get better audio and u got something going here i subscribed
I think about the part of caden giving roles to people and what it signifies, and I couldn’t help but to interpret it as how we are given roles just for existing. we have a role to play in life. and he, Caden even acknowledges that “13 million people” not being extra and have their own dues. And have their small world. just like how every movie is it’s own. a story with its own cast. at the end when Caden is playing the role of Ellen for a moment he stares at photos of people he had relation to. but when Ellen speaks to him as if it’s his own consciousness to further signify that he is playing the role of Ellen herself. He sees a picture of Ellen’s mother. and at the end has that moment of mother and daughter in Ellen place, because his “world” is gone
I am just trying to connect the dots, I just saw the movie and still not satisfied with any explanations so far
youre the best.
Excellent guidance..mate..plz make a video on Denis Villeneuve directed Enemy(2013)-it is a very ambiguous film to understand and interpret..plz
8:42 "in this campaign in which we are defeated in advance." So so true. Our lives are all finite and we all ultimately lose the battle against death and entropy.
But I like how Camus offers a way out, somewhat: "whenever we claim our freedom and make the most of what is given..."
I, as I'm sure many who are watching this video, have struggled with coping with the existential weight of finding "meaning" I'm this absurd situation we call life. But here's what I realized after wasting far too much time in my youth contemplating it: it is precisely because life is short and finite that we have an obligation to make the most of the little time we've been gifted. Because say you're 25 today. Barring any disease or car collision, you will wake up one day and be 35. And you will not believe it. How did this happen?! Where did ten years go?!!! But they do. Very sneaky, but the years do go by. You won't believe or appreciate it until one day it happens.
It took me 10 years to understand it. Cotard does not fail to deliver the spectacular work he promised when he received that grant, he did just that. He showed a play which has no witnesses, no one watching from a seat in the public, a play as long as life itself, in which everyone is the main character. It was like that video game "The Sims", only with actors which had a second life at work. They were themselves when not at work, but they were living someone else's life when acting. And Cotard WAS everything his family said he was, what we saw was just the acting. He WAS homosexual in his private life and I think that his lover was the one that jumped.
The artist, unlike the philosopher does not seek to explain or solve, he seeks to describe, something we try to come to terms with.
One of the things I like about this movie is that it's about what happens when you give an incredibly creative and talented person carte blanche. Basically, they go off the rails making something interesting and impractical. And that's also what the movie itself is.
Hands down, my favorite movie
Subbed 👍
Wow
Do something about the leftovers, there is deep meaning in that show
Masterpiece
merci
Hello there I’m a cinephile from China and I adore this film. I’m wondering if I can translate this video into Chinese and post it on Chinese social media (because TH-cam is banned in our country). I’ll just simply put Chinese subtitles on the video and give you all the credit with the original link and your name in the intro section. I’ll appreciate it if you say yes. Pretty please with sugar on top.
"We must imagine Caden happy."
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The movie to me was about mental illness, the fragility of life, the importance of love, and the disposable nature of humans in the modern world. Most importantly it's about communication barriers. Nobody truly will understand you, except for you, and even more, the isolation we all experience. People come and go, but you will never leave yourself, until you do. Then it's all over. And that's the saddest part.
Most of the people he is speaking to are projections. He is alone. He has no family. The movie is heartbreaking.
Also, I couldn't help find similarities between this film and the infamous Tears in the Rain monologue in Blade Runner. Perhaps that is why life is so traggic: each person's life has accumulated countless memories and love and unique experiences, and when we die, all of these experiences and special and unique loves between that individual and another... all those unique fingerprints are lost. Forever. How many people's unique memories have been permanently lost upon their death? Literally entire lifetimes of stories and ideas and memories and inside jokes -- all of them vanish, never to be experienced exactly the same way again. Perhaps it is this loss of information and uniqueness that makes death such a tragedy.