In fact, even after a year, I waited a long time before I muster the courage to face it. The hesitation may come from the ending I learned early in the morning-David Foster Wallace, one of the most talented writers of this era, chose to hang himself out of the world on September 12, 2008. At the beginning of "The End of Travel" is another writer played by Jesse Eisenberg, who once interviewed David Lipsky of Wallace—another David—learned about Wallace. The news of his death, with an incredibly painful expression, read his works on the radio, re-find the interview recordings of the year, and recalled the journey of just a few days.
There is no complicated plot, but a young writer who has just entered the work of "Rolling Stone", suddenly heard that a colleague was highly praised by the media, "Next year's book awards are none other than him." He found the 1,000-page "Endless Joke" and wanted to verify all this personally, only to find that the author who heard the name for the first time was so talented, so he decided to interview him. The movie is the process of the entire interview. David Lipsky came to David Foster Wallace’s house and accompanied him to the last stop of the book sale. Two Davids were at Wallace. At home, school, on the road, hotels and bookstores in Minnesota, conversations all the way.
A chat between two people can easily become boring or boring. Although Richard Linklater gave a positive example in his "Love Is In" trilogy, the subject of the dialogue was changed to two men, and there was no continuity of love. The topics discussed were still writing, inspiration, Depression, addiction, and other topics that are not so easy, the prerequisite for thinking that it is good-looking must be willing to open a certain door in your heart, leading to certain gloomy thoughts that have been hidden in the dark. At the beginning of the interview, Wallace talked about the changes his fame has brought to him, and the possibility of having sex with more girls, yet he made himself feel like a bitch who sold him out. On the flight to the book signing event, he first talked about his depression. At the age of 28, he was lost in writing. That was the only thing he could get motivated. He started drinking and sleeping with strangers. Life stopped abruptly this year. Then watching another younger David, returning to his current life, he said, "David, this is nice. This is not real. "
This is actually not just a film about the writer and the depression that bothers him. After returning from the book signing meeting, after experiencing a cold war due to misunderstanding and a sharp argument about heroin, Wallace came to Lipsky’s room and finally tore a certain hole in his heart and said that he was in the book. I wrote a paragraph that when a person jumps from a burning skyscraper, it is because death becomes a relief in the face of worse choices. He said that he felt that every word he had heard in his life was wrong. He was nothing but an illusion. You are better than others because you already see through, and you are worse than others because you can no longer live a normal life. He said that he felt that people would not change, those things were still buried in his body.
David Lipsky was lying on the bed, something flashing in his eyes, I think it was because of some kind of tingling I also felt.
"Speaking of fundamentals, all Wallace's novels should be written about this kind of pain. The genius writer who died young once said: The function of novels is to tell readers that being a human being an animal is what the hell is it? What kind of taste is it." Wallace's works are not many in Chinese. Before that, there was only a collection of short stories "The Forgotten" and the lecture "The Simplest and Most Difficult Things in Life", "Endless Jokes" in simplified Chinese. The Chinese version has been translated and will be published next year. The above quote comes from an article about Wallace in the book reviewer Flounder "The Man Who Carves Novels".
Lipsky published Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace in 2010, which was on the New York Times bestseller list. It was selected as the best film of the year by many media including the "New York Times". Under the influence of the two Davids, this film tries to use a journey to tell their views and pursuits of fame and fortune, life and death, and life. Wallace chose a "not so bad" death, but Lipsky's tears were a kind of understanding.
In the movie, Lipsky hesitated for a long time, and finally passed his novel The Art Fair to Wallace, hoping to get his evaluation, but he failed. At the end, he read a section of this non-fictional work in his sharing session, saying, when I think of this journey, David and I are sitting in the front row of his car, we are all so young, what he wants It is something better than what he has now, and what I want is what he already has. We don't know where our lives are going. There is a smell of chewing tobacco, cola, and cigarettes in the air. Those conversations are the best conversations I have ever had. David believes that the existence of books makes people forget loneliness. If possible, I will tell him that those days with him did not relieve me from life, but reminded me of what life should be like. Will tell him that it makes me feel less lonely.
The lens is left to Wallace, who is dancing happily, carefree, like a child. But you will know that some things have never changed. Death may be the end in a certain sense, but it also has a deeper meaning, reminding us of the purpose of life, the choices we make for this, the unsatisfied desires, and how to understand ourselves, knowing that I have been in this world, I What is staying here for?
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