After discussing it on the New York subway, I felt that I was not rigorous enough, and I wondered if Eisenberg's performance was too restrained. One is that if it's just love between the same sex, the director doesn't need to spend so much time arranging so many lines. Second, I feel that since it is a true story, the sparks between the two have not progressed after five days, which is too illogical.
So after returning home, I left the interview without writing, and studied the story about the two of them. Later, I discovered that my previous humble opinion was really ridiculous, and I hope to list some facts so that some ignorant people like me will not have the same suspicion.
1. Time Magazine’s interview with David Lipsky
http://time.com/3986538/david-lipsky-david-foster-wallace-the-end-of-the-tour/
Reading through the whole article , David has some details on the movie Modifications were made (such as the medicine cabinet in the bathroom), but overall, the film was handled very well. He said that he used a shoebox to put tapes and drafts, just like in reality, and listened to them every few years. He said that DFW's words meant a lot to him. In order to avoid all kinds of hints of basic emotions, my translation is very straightforward. And my understanding of "matters a lot" is: his words are of great significance to my life.
So it is not difficult to understand why he lay on his back in the movie, and shed tears just listening to DFW. Because he cares. And he doesn't care purely out of feelings, and even, it is possible that there is almost no emotional mixing. He cared out of empathy. This empathy is different from what we usually say, reading great works, or chatting with great people, that empathy. Instead, he really put himself in the place, admired a person and entered his life, and felt the loneliness of DFW and the whole world. If in the movie, Eisenberg's emotional changes to DFW dogs can be more profound, it will undoubtedly prove his understanding of DFW's loneliness.
As for his evaluation of himself, "It'd be very interesting to talk to you in a few years. My own experience is that that's not so—that the more people think that you're really good, actually the stronger the fear of being a fraud is."
2. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/end-tour-david-foster-wallace/
Here are some soundtracks from the tape at that time.
You will find that the degree of restoration of the movie is very high.
"Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace" This is the book that really tells the story later. In the movie, it was said that it was a reporter for Rolling Stone Magazine. In fact, because other reports were more important at the time, David Lipsky did not publish his article, but later published it in the form of a book. The following is a link to purchase, there is a kindle version
http://www.amazon.com/Although-Course-You-Becoming-Yourself/dp/030759243X
3. The book was published in 2010, and DFW committed suicide in 2008 Died. DFW's father said that his son suffered from depression for more than 20 years, and it was the effects of drugs that made him persist in completing those great works.
So the problem is, David Lipsky must know that it is the effect of the drug, and the film emphasizes this point so much, even at the end he used a 5-minute lens to film the argument between the two of the interview on this point. This can explain the whole story, but I still have reason to suspect that David Lipsky's memory is confused. In the movie, he opened the medicine cabinet by going to the toilet, but in real life, he said that the cabinet was open at the time, and he just looked at it.
The director will not make such mistakes, and there is no need to tamper with it. The only reason is that the director does not believe that there is no anti-depressant medication at DFW, or that he wants the audience to doubt this. The reason why the last quarrel gave so much time was also to allow the audience to separate from the story and read DFW's works and stories in reality, so as to evaluate or review some fragments of this great author.
This is my final evaluation of the movie. Very in-depth, very realistic, but also quite intriguing details. These details can be regarded as some suspicion of David Lipsky's book publishing after DFW's death, and can also be regarded as evidence of the great friendship between the two and the collision of souls.
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