This movie had enjoyable dialogue, which for a movie that is mostly about conversation, is something I don't often say. Eisenberg and Segel are new names for me, but I expect this movie will advance their opportunities as actors because they did a great job inhabiting their characters. I have not read any David Foster Wallace, but somehow even the greatness of Segel's character didn't quite strike me as convincing. This is not a problem I saw with Segels acting, but with the writing. I don't think the film really portrays the fact that Wallace was often perceived to be the very type of person he was critized of being. This film tries to answer the question by saying he was truly a normal guy -- but that I find unlikely. I guess I don't care who he wasn't, but who WAS he? We don't need a whole film to convince us that someone was just a normal person.
Review of The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour
(2015)
Interesting dialogue about how a celebrated writer is basically normal
26 November 2022