Between Synecdoche and Happy, Let The Right One In

Between Synecdoche and Happy, Let The Right One In
Charlie Kaufman, like all students of cinema, surely studied the great works of Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, a director who made melancholy fashionable, and nihilism hip. The sad thing is, Bergman infused much of his work with very sharp, black humor; only most of us either overlooked it, or refused to acknowledge it.
Charlie Kaufman definitely acknowledges the need for humor, and the impact such a contrasting element can lend to the bleakest of scenarios, as found in all his previous works, but lost in Synecdoche.

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