As an homage to this film, I'll write this review on my blackberry while driving.
At 123 minutes, this film manages to stretch a 45 minute concept quite a bit beyond where it needed to go. This story would have made a great 90-minute made for TV slot (66 minutes of actual film). Viewers are given so much spare time on while watching that we all can collect together the various cuts we would have made to perk the thing up without losing any story (like every scene with his wife, for example); and do it in real time as the film crawled along.
I am pleased I stuck through the tedium of the first 115 minutes, because ***spoiler*** the last 8 minutes where the threads of the script were tied together were very nicely done. Even though we can all debate considerably whether suicide is the right solution for anything. ***end spoiler***
At 123 minutes, this film manages to stretch a 45 minute concept quite a bit beyond where it needed to go. This story would have made a great 90-minute made for TV slot (66 minutes of actual film). Viewers are given so much spare time on while watching that we all can collect together the various cuts we would have made to perk the thing up without losing any story (like every scene with his wife, for example); and do it in real time as the film crawled along.
I am pleased I stuck through the tedium of the first 115 minutes, because ***spoiler*** the last 8 minutes where the threads of the script were tied together were very nicely done. Even though we can all debate considerably whether suicide is the right solution for anything. ***end spoiler***