The second is Synecdoche, New York written and directed by our friend, Charlie Kaufman. Precision layering of ideas complex and slippery. The cast, led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, was perfect, which was probably necessary because the actors could not have possibly foreseen how this masterpiece would be laced together? So much of the story reverberates with me, which fuels its many turns in my mind, but the semantics, symbolism, plot and (dare I say) thesis are masterfully executed.

Synecdoche, by the way: