There is structural similarity between the two, but in Synechdoche, Caden’s (the director) life is the explicit subject of the intradiagetic (in-narrative world

There is structural similarity between the two, but in Synechdoche, Caden’s (the director) life is the explicit subject of the intradiagetic (in-narrative world) film. [0] The subject of the OP uses Soviet-era Russia and its surveillance state as the (um) synechdoche to stand in for the apparatus of the cinematic production. To my mind, this project more closely resembles the disastrous subject of the documentary We Live In Public [1] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028 [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329