Hey Mark, everything you criticise about this movie is everything I like. If it was made more "accessible" then you'd lose me.

Mark kermode didn't like the film. So be it. If you don't agree, it doesn't affect your enjoyment.

I'm obsessed with this film, I feel like Kauffman reached genius status with this film...apparently it was booed at cannes! wtf?

Watched this film a while back and it blew me away, it's such an important film and it really captured the struggle of the human condition yet it's so undervalued, with another phenomenal performance from the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman

‘All the good stuff gets lost in the waffle’ what waffle? None of this film is filler the whole film is intentional amd specific

Probably my favourite movie of all time. I’ve never seen anything that explored the human condition so completely.

Unlike Mr Kermode, I totally engaged with the characters. Caden’s regret, sadness and fear are mine too. Yet, each time I watch this film I feel liberated, grounded in the realisation that time is precious. The plot is thick and overlapping? so is life. The film’s title is confusing and convoluted? So are the titles Caden proposes for his endlessly evolving play. Surely these are a deliberate reflection of our own struggle to find titles for our own little plays, the meaning of our life.

If every medium was written to be more accessible then it would fail to move forward as an art form

I can understand being completely overwhelmed by this film (I think everyone is the first time they see it) but that doesn’t make it any lesser to me

Circumstances being that this film was the product of one writer, really dont see how this film could have been any other way. The changes Mark suggests would mutilate it.

I really believe that in ten years time this film will have been reassessed and it'll be considered a masterpiece

Synecdoche New York moved me deeply the first time I saw it, and it felt like a true masterpiece the third time I watched it.

SNY improves with each viewing; it's a masterpiece..

I loved this film, emotional and full to the brim with imagery and metaphors.

Augh, I wanted to agree with Kermode! S,NY is glorious. It's a sort of surreal-realism self-absorbed mash leavened with humour and knocked back with breathtaking despair and loneliness. I can see Kermode's comment that it could be shorter, but I love every part of it like a friend---I don't think I could stand to see any of it go. I watched without trying to outwit it and was stunned by the beauty of its central message: everyone is the protagonist in their own story, and everybody's fucked up.

"Straight to the heart of the periphery"

Underrated film, gets better every time you see it

i thought this movie was great. i found it somewhat depressing the first time round. but the second time i began to notice so many new things. and realized there were so many clues that paid off in inventive, unpredictable ways later on. i especially loved the girl's diary that continued on through the rest of her life, with entries that came after his having found the diary. also, how slippery time was, his first breakfast spanned a few months by what i saw.

SNY is, admittedly, a difficult movie to enjoy. It's uncompromising. It's relentlessly dark and pessimistic. There no laughs, easy or otherwise. Kaufman offers no comfort, no red carpet to the "solution" of this film. But I don't see how you can deny the greatness and genius here. It's amazing.

You're a top bloke for uploading this. Cheers! But I disagree with Kermode here. Saying it's like being inside Charlie Kaufman's head for two hours would be more a compliment to the film and I think he did a great job with his directorial debut. I suppose I don't mind self-indulgence as much as the good Doctor.