Films·
The End of the Tour
Conversation about fame, loneliness, ambition, and the fear of being misunderstood
Metadata
| Director | James Ponsoldt |
| Year | 2015 |
| Writer | Donald Margulies |
| Stars | Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg |
The Movie in 3 Sentences
- The journalist David Lipsky spends several days interviewing writer David Foster Wallace at the end of Wallace’s Infinite Jest book tour. David wants something better than what he has, and David wants what David has already - fame, ambition, recognition. It’s a series of continuous conversion between two smart, insecure men circling envy, fame, loneliness, ambition, and the fear of being misunderstood.
- I haven’t read any of David Foster Wallace’s books but I could feel his his loneliness because his extraordinary clarity, but that clarity does not free him from it. In essence (and in the best of ways), nothing really happens in this movie. There isn't a lot of high stakes drama, but that's exactly what makes it so compelling. It's like we as the audience get a glimpse into two men struggling with the same ideas about life, art, expression, addiction, culture, and depression.
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