{"id":266,"date":"2008-10-03T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:26:01","slug":"synecdoche-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/10\/synecdoche-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Synecdoche, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to a screening of the new Charlie Kaufman film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/synecdocheny\/\">Synecdoche, New York<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XIizh6nYnTU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Like his prior work, its a bit strange, but also amusing.&nbsp; Originally conceived as a &#8220;horror film&#8221; for Sony, this is what Kaufman came up with.&nbsp; A story about a theater director so afraid of death that he is misses life and the good parts of it.&nbsp; I thought it was a fascinating film, and fit perfectly alongside the rest of Kaufman&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>My friend went with me said &#8220;near the end, I just wanted it to be over already.&#8221;&nbsp; Not because it wasn&#8217;t an enjoyable movie, but just because it was getting long.&nbsp; What I just realized though, is perhaps this was a good thing.&nbsp; This is a film about living and dying after all.&nbsp; For some people at the end of life, you wish for it just to be over, the suffering of pain, loneliness, whatever.&nbsp; But for whatever reason they linger on, in pain, alone until finally the warm light embraces them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to a screening of the new Charlie Kaufman film, Synecdoche, New York Like his prior work, its a bit strange, but also amusing.&nbsp; Originally conceived as a &#8220;horror film&#8221; for Sony, this is what Kaufman came up with.&nbsp; A story about a theater director so afraid of death that he is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/10\/synecdoche-new-york\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[259,532,38],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-death","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-movies","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}