I hesitate to recommend my favorite movie of all time because it is really, really, really weird, bizarre, and esoteric.
It is written and directed by Charlie Kaufman.
Kaufman is a genius at off-beat, meta-lunatic story lines, a surreal settings.
He wrote such films as:
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
ETERNAL SUNSHINE of the SPOTLESS MIND.
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Unless you love (not "like") the above films--you shouldn't tackle the one I'm about to suggest.
The lead actor is Philip Seymore Hoffman.
Hoffman is Caden Cotard. Cotard is a theater director who wins a MacArthur genius grant. Instead of making his life easier, the money gives him the opportunity to indulge his neurosis. Besides being a hypochondriac, he's obsessed by the notion of re-creating in a giant warehouse (drum roll please.........) New York City in miniature and depicting not only everybody he knows, but everybody else.
I know, I know--that doesn't sound exciting. But "weird" is a fascinating plunge into the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole of the lunatic genius imagination of Charlie Kaufman.
I will attach a video of just one scene.
One of Cotard's love interests is in love with a house she's always had her eye on.
It is perpetually burning.
The scene (in context of watching the movie) gave me chill bumps (a thrill) for the monumental abstraction and insanity of its daring to be normal.
Without context, it will probably leave you scratching your head and wondering if I should be locked up someplace secure for suggesting the movie.
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SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK is the title.
(Note: what does the word mean? It is a figure of speech in which part of something ----Cotard's play about everybody in New York-- represents the whole.)
I doubt one person in a thousand can "get" the film and love it as much as I do.
You have to have a kink in your DNA and a twist to the brain pan.
I think it is simply a brilliant masterpiece.