I just finished watching this Charlie Kaufman masterpiece for the first time. I've never read anything about it, just want to try to get my thoughts straight by writing them out.
I think it is a look in psychosis. Young Olive even says "You can have both," when psychosis gets brought up. Viewing the world and yourself as the outside looking in, not ever full grasping who you are. Because your brain is semi-delusional and opsessive on details that do not matter. Him making his play, and incorporating the whole city into his story, it shows that he takes it all in all the time, without being able to control his thoughts or perceptions. And the big warehouses within warehouses where the "plays" were - that is showing how a brain suffering psychosis processing everything a bunch of times in different ways, at the same time. In and out of reality. At the end, he finally makes it back to the "real" setting and sees the actress.
Was he really sick physically? I don't know. All of those meds could have just represented his mental health medication - as I'm sure somebody who is prescribed heavy doses of something would feel. His brain is making him think he is sick otherwise. Or, in the sense that we are all sick as it relates to us eventually dying. We get "sicker" all the time as our bodies wear down. His brain was just manifesting that.
He keeps trying to analyze his life to find meaning (the play) and breaks it down so much that he removes his real self completely from it and takes on the role of Ellan. He is just lost. Death is brought up a bunch in this movie. As were relationships. And near the end he says, "It's not about death, it's about relationships." So, he is saying connections and experiences with other people is the meaning. Not just the ending that matters.(we only saw the ending of the play he directed at the beginning of the movie as some foreshadowing that he is focused on the end/death). Adele, Hazel, Claire, even Olive - he never really allowed his relationships to be what was most important. He would even check obituaries during breakfast with Adele.
Him trying to come up with a name for the play was like, if only he could get the name right it would all make sense.
The burning house I still have questions on. Is it a manifestation of bad decisions? Knowing that the house was on fire (a person has a lot of issues you are about to commit to) and still moving forward with it. It can also be saying that investing in a house is fleeting and just takes your money until you die. Also, was the guy that Ellan was with at the end the same guy Hazel was originally with? Was Dave his name? Also, I originally thought that Sammie was just Death following him around. Man. What a movie. I am probably just rambling, but wanted to get some thoughts out and maybe 1 person will read this, enjoy it, and talk about it with me.
Also, Phillip Seymour Hoffman fucking rules.
Edit: I keep going back and adding more. Also, I am realizing that there is so much more to everything then what I said. What an incredible film.
Submitted September 21, 2017 at 08:44PM by SickTits3 http://ift.tt/2xiMvEw
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