Synecdoche, New York is being shown today only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School by the Gaborone Film Society. It was one of the ten best films of 2008. Yet it has largely gone unnoticed. It was hailed as one of the top 10 films of that year by many movie critics, but a few also decreed it one of the worst - the only movie of 2008 to make the top 10 and the bottom 10. It is both funny and not funny at the same time.
Synecdoche, New York is a creation of scriptwriter Charlie Kaufman whose previous challenging hits have been Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Synecdoche, New York is his first film as a director. Kaufman has been compared to the great Swedish writer-director, Bergman. His films are serious and challenging vehicles that explore our minds and reflect us in them. Remember our minds are a vessel from which arise perceptions of reality, our fantasies, our desires and dreams, even our illusions and hallucinations.
