Caden

I am not at all a fan of Charlie Kaufman—rare is the high-concept movie that does "it" for me—and Synecdoche, New York is no exception. "I think I have blood in my stool." "That stool in your office?" That is not clever writing, it is shitty writing.

But what lost me, really, because I am a pedant above all, was the name Caden, which is of only recent vintage (i.e., the early nineties). I wish, I guess, that Kaufman had just gone whole hog—named his protagonist not Caden but Cadence, even if it is a girl's name, or, better yet, since he's so into homophones, Kaydence. That'd, at least, have some guts.