watched this last night and i still can't decide if it's bordering on brilliant or pathetic. i liked the pace and the lack of, despite a clearcut goal, purpose in the way it goes about from place to place, scene to scene, very different from most every movie one might otherwise see. thing is, while certain conclusions could be assumed:
we are never given enough information to really conlude anything definitively. that being said, clearly the film is about the journey, except do we know enough about murray's don in the beginning to know how much he may have changed by the end. his reaching out to the kid from the airport, buying him the sandwich and whatnot--that was a notable act for the practically somnambulistic character from earlier, but then when the kids runs and don is left in the street, it's like no change has taken place at all, at least none that will last
so then, what's the point? is it all an existential treatise? a grand measure of the nothingness of being? a metaphor for every attempt to truly KNOW anything in life? and, if we (or at least i) can't really know what the point of the film is, is that a whole other level of metaphor, or is it filmmaking that while deliberately laidback drifted into lazy?
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