I don't see what others see about this film in these reviews in that they see a film almost in praise of suicide. Or seeking to explain the leads suicide and why it is logical.
I think that is furthest from this films meaning. Yes it does detail the pathology of suicide. The pride, the self-loathing, the jealously of other people.
But it does so in a way that makes this pathology seem absurd. I mean here is this guy about to commit suicide and he is more with it and probably talented than everyone he is around. These people have just found a small niche to hide out in and survive and take small pleasures from life.
These people are providing the blueprint for how the lead should proceed, but he is just too prideful and self-abusive to see this. That is the gift of this film, in showing how absurd the suicide of the lead is it breaks the pathology of depression and suicide.
Really astounding film. Film brought to its highest essence.
I think that is furthest from this films meaning. Yes it does detail the pathology of suicide. The pride, the self-loathing, the jealously of other people.
But it does so in a way that makes this pathology seem absurd. I mean here is this guy about to commit suicide and he is more with it and probably talented than everyone he is around. These people have just found a small niche to hide out in and survive and take small pleasures from life.
These people are providing the blueprint for how the lead should proceed, but he is just too prideful and self-abusive to see this. That is the gift of this film, in showing how absurd the suicide of the lead is it breaks the pathology of depression and suicide.
Really astounding film. Film brought to its highest essence.