Synecdoche, New York follows the proud tradition of Charlie
Kaufman movies that I don't enjoy. His characters are always unlikeable, and I
can't get invested in them. There are a lot of things about it that could be
funny if it weren't so depressing as a whole. I can appreciate it, but it's resoundingly not my thing.
2008 seems like a long time ago. It was only seven years.
Maybe anything before 2010 registers as "a long time ago" for me. Charlie Kaufman is not my favorite writer. I could
appreciate Being John Malkovich, but I didn't like it. I found the characters to be really unlikeable, which was
the same problem I had with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I generally
hate surrealism, and that movie is pretty out there. Plus if you don't like the
characters, it's just really hard to be invested in what's going on.
