Reddit reviews Remainder

Reminds me of Synecdoche, New York and the book, Remainder

There's an interesting book similar to this concept called remainder by Thomas McCarthy

https://www.amazon.com/Remainder-Tom-McCarthy/dp/0307278352

Remainder by Tom McCarthy.

>The unnamed narrator, who suffers memory loss as the result of an accident that "involved something falling from the sky," receives an £8.5 million settlement and uses the money to re-enact, with the help of a "facilitator" he hires, things remembered or imagined. He buys an apartment building to replicate one that has come to him in a vision and then populates it with people hired to re-enact, over and over again, the mundane activities he has seen his imaginary neighbors performing. He stages both ordinary acts (the fixing of a punctured tire) and violent ones (shootings and more), each time repeating the events many times and becoming increasingly detached from reality and fascinated by the scenarios his newfound wealth has allowed him to create—even though he professes he doesn't "want to understand them." McCarthy's evocation of the narrator's absorption in his fantasy world as it cascades out of control is brilliant all the way through the abrupt climax.

The narrator describes everything--his desire for the looping reenactments to go on infinitely with no variation, the modifications to his bizarre fantasy apartment complex--all as though it were perfectly natural and understandable. He has no idea how far he is slipping from reality, how fractured his world view is becoming. And of course his employees learn quickly not to question him. The book draws you into his world; you are lulled by his madness, and sympathize with it.

It's a strange and powerful little book, and criminally overlooked.