The End of the Tour
It's about a Rolling Stone journalist who comes to interview writer David Foster Wallace in 1996 soon after the publication of his Infinite Jest. The movie is based on the book by this journalist David Lipinsky who based it by his recorded conversations with Wallace.
DFW (who killed himself in 2013) is basically a recluse living in backwoods American with his dogs who seems to suffer from depression and social anxiety and is not really interested at all in living the life of a "famous writer".
There was something very honest and refreshing about this movie...it was nearly 2 hours long but I kind of wished it would go on longer. I'm pretty sure it was the fact that it followed the recorded conversations so much which gave it such a refreshing feeling. No artificial bullshit of standard biopics. It's basically just a young inexperienced journo (who himself was an aspiring fiction writer) following a very introverted and existentially troubled man (who happened to be a very good writer) on a relatively uneventful and insignificant trip to Minneapolis and back. No big drama or fanfares but a very strong substance in this movie.
Jason Segel makes a wonderful performance there, great casting choice. At first it seemed a bit awkward because he basically can only play one role and I mostly remember him as Nick from Freaks and Geeks...so this basically was Nick as a 34 year old. But it worked well.
Definitely worth watching.
9.5/10
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It's about a Rolling Stone journalist who comes to interview writer David Foster Wallace in 1996 soon after the publication of his Infinite Jest. The movie is based on the book by this journalist David Lipinsky who based it by his recorded conversations with Wallace.
DFW (who killed himself in 2013) is basically a recluse living in backwoods American with his dogs who seems to suffer from depression and social anxiety and is not really interested at all in living the life of a "famous writer".
There was something very honest and refreshing about this movie...it was nearly 2 hours long but I kind of wished it would go on longer. I'm pretty sure it was the fact that it followed the recorded conversations so much which gave it such a refreshing feeling. No artificial bullshit of standard biopics. It's basically just a young inexperienced journo (who himself was an aspiring fiction writer) following a very introverted and existentially troubled man (who happened to be a very good writer) on a relatively uneventful and insignificant trip to Minneapolis and back. No big drama or fanfares but a very strong substance in this movie.
Jason Segel makes a wonderful performance there, great casting choice. At first it seemed a bit awkward because he basically can only play one role and I mostly remember him as Nick from Freaks and Geeks...so this basically was Nick as a 34 year old. But it worked well.
Definitely worth watching.
9.5/10
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