Maybe not as dreamlike and tantalizing as the teaser poster, but a beautiful Metropolis-under-glass terrarium all the same. Probably best that promotional teasers for Synecdoche, New York stay away from trying a literal explanation of the puzzle-box complexity of the film, but this poster works for me because it manages to convey the unlikely juxtapositions of familiar cityscapes. Urban organisms like New York are pretty friggen surreal in everyday experience, so it doesn’t take a huge leap of mental gymnastics to ramp that reality up to the next valence of mind-bending 4-D origami narrative structure.
(Handy trailer accessibility after the cut, for anyone who missed Sasha’s links last week)
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