>What was once before you, an exciting and 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 is everyone.

absolutely brutal film

>>212699407 (OP)
Nihilistic garbage.

>>212699407 (OP)
yeah I watched it when I was deeply depressed and I can't bring myself to watch it again even now that I'm fine, it's such a depressing movie.
This tidbit of the soundtrack is very good though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYoZ6UHtPU

>>212699478
uh oh someone doesn't want to confront their mortality

>>212699571
had a similar experience when it came out, but i rewatched when I was doing better and it was funny how try-hard this movie is in trying to beat its audience into feelings of depression and futility.

>>212699693
I see, maybe I'll give it a watch as a test then because not being affected by it would reassure me on how much better I'm doing now, thanks.
Depression is a bitch, I don't think it truly ever goes away completely because generally it's the people who are predisposed to melancholy that "get it", but life becomes much more enjoyable when you finally understand that you are not truly broken and that what's making you miserable is just a small nasty part of you that you can learn to rein in and control.

>>212699868
good luck bro

>>212699407 (OP)
Jewish nonsense. Quit posting this trash here.

>>212699693
>this movie is in trying to beat its audience into feelings of depression and futility.
Yeah they definitely went way too hard by ironically poking fun at people's anxieties. When the protagonist's shit changed colour I wept.

>>212699407 (OP)
I mean there is a comfort and beauty to that too. He spent his whole life fixating on this instead of living, and at the end of it all the specifics of his existential suffering hardly mattered because everyone has to deal with life and death.

>>212699693
>>212699868
>>212700191
I think people fail to understand that this movie is a very, very black comedy too, it's not just miserable moping it is very much being intentionally funny too. The fathers tiny coffin is something I laughed out loud at when it cut to it, the 4 year old anti-semite writer that killed himself

>>212700304
i like some of the comedy and ideas in the movie, but i genuinely feel like charlie kaufman would have measured the success of his movie by how many people would have offed themselves in the parking lot of the cinema after the screening.

>>212700080
y-you too
>>212700230
yeah what makes nihilism attractive to desperate people is that if nothing matters then neither do your mistakes and your shortcomings
>>212700304
I definitely could see the humor even back then, the movie is filled with absurdities. The "it's been 13 years" after the protagonist just delivered a speech about his project could make for a decent meme if I'm remembering it well

>>212699407 (OP)
Don't project your mental illnesses onto us please, rabbi

>>212699407 (OP)
I don't understand. This was a comedy

>>212699868
Happy for you anon
We’re gonna make it

>>212699407 (OP)
>>212699478
I agree that Kaufmann is a very cynical human being, but I think in Synecdoches case what you get out of it depends on your personal outlook. Everything being meaningless can also be a comforting thought that makes it easier to face your struggles. If life is meaningless, then you should just embrace it and enjoy it the best you can. There's no need to be so fearful of failure etc.