gosh

Kiana 2022-09-03 05:38:41

Still shocked in my mind, this movie is full of metaphors and borrowings. I told C that I had to watch TMD several times.

I wanted to watch it two years ago, but never got the chance. The last time I accidentally talked to E, she said excitedly that she has a DVD, and this movie is her bible. Today, I was with C at her place while drinking a little wine and watching under the covers. Her projector was a little crooked, and with the lights off, it felt like she was in the first row of a movie theater.

The first hour was basically foggy. Suddenly, the twists and turns turned, and I began to seem to understand and not understand, and my mood was agitated. Fate, despair, real and unreal.

It's ridiculous that we watch the play and grieve with the phantoms. As soon as the lights were turned on, I was ashamed and left behind, for fear that others would see it.

"Ask your family how Christmas is!", "You too, have a good New Year!" It's

all bullshit.

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Synecdoche, New York quotes

  • Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.

  • [over radio]

    Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.

    Millicent Weems: Walk.

    Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...

    Millicent Weems: Gone.