I made this almost exactly a year ago, with the intention to my many friends who use this website to catalog what films they've seen and when they watched them. Despite my best efforts, I never really clicked with the platform, I think I just struggle to quantity how I feel about a film without second guessing myself. I haven't used it since January, and I've generally been less online the last few months, for various personal reasons.…

When I was first getting into movies, I often specifically sought out “weird” or “mind bending” films. I especially liked when I went in knowing absolutely nothing about them, and would be taken on an unpredictable ride. I watched a lot of movies I thoroughly disown now during this period, but one of them I still think about and am entranced by, one where every rewatch still gives me that feeling of mystery and discovery, is Synecdoche New York.

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This avoids the trappings of being a Viceland “Look at these freaks!” spectacle like I feared it would be, and taps into something more intelligent. The film interrogates the questions you’re probably asking: “Why are these woman pursuing this black market over official channels?” “Why are these men donating their sperm for little to no cost?” through the story of three donors. One of them, Ari, is the film’s most amusing “character”, having fathered 100+ children, which he visit on…