The End of the Tour 2015

This film is really interesting. I wish it went more into the story of what happened after the interview, mostly just because I really want to know more.  This film is based on a true story of an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace. Jessie Eisenburg and Jason Siegel did an incredible job at portraying these characters. After now seeing interviews of David Foster Wallace, it it’s even more impressive how a great a job Jason Siegel did, that man is a truly underrated actor.  On the 12th of September 2008, David Foster Wallace committed suicide, which makes this film feel so much more sad and profound. After I finished watching the film I straight away purchased his book “infinite jest”. I find this man fascinating and the film perfectly encapsulates what an interesting man he was.  There were issues with the film, I’m not sure I liked Jessie Eisenberg’s character too much and a lot of this film’s conflict felt really forced and unnecessary, but the conversations these characters had were riveting and watching their relationship grow was really great to watch.  David Lipsky went on to write a book about his encounter with Wallace called “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”, which this film is based on and we even hear him read from it at the end of the movie. The rolling stone interview that David was writing is also available to read online. I didn’t know any of these people before I watched this film and now I really wanna know more about them. Again I wish we saw more of David’s reaction to David’s death, or even some kind of explanation at all about weather they ever spoke again, or what happened in the years leading up to David’s suicide. But this film isn’t about that, and I’m not sure this is so much a fault of the film as much as it is just my own curiosity.  8.1/10