I'm so tired of watching the movie that I'm not interested in the ending

Dina 2022-03-23 09:03:01

It can be said that it is a movie that forces me to watch it, and while watching it, I convince myself that "there might be something". Then I can't stand it anymore...

It might be better to check it out after a while.

With all the messy thoughts, I couldn't make up my mind:

David is a man who seeks absolute truth and freedom. I think he is a bit like the protagonist of the moon and sixpence, painted as a picture, but destroyed in the end, just for the ideal in my heart, the pure ideal. As for David, even though his works have made him famous, he is not at all comfortable with it. When he wants to escape, when his desire to be famous is achieved, he can only get a little bit of excitement mixed with nervousness and anxiety. Running all kinds of itineraries is not like joy, but more like "responsibility", being pushed by everything, which is a kind of torture for him who pursues without whitewashing. So, is sometimes the gift of perception a gift, or a punishment? David doesn't know how to write his own work, he's not suited to preach new books and participate in radio, and he always defends himself "I can't" before these things start, but in fact he attracts everyone. When other people's evaluation of him does not match his own perception of himself, he suffers and becomes even more lonely, but where in the world is there a double law? He talked about becoming self-centered when he was creating, taking advantage of other people's feelings, being there when he wanted others, and letting others go when he didn't want to be disturbed, so he would rather not have a partner. David's heart is soft, and truly self-centered people will ignore it. This is another pain. David is easily addicted to various addictions. He tries his best to avoid temptation in life and wants to maintain his "essence", but what is his essence? Is it just him that he doesn't want to reveal the addiction, the arrogance, the pretentiousness? His various thoughts are contradictory, and it is hard not to suffer.

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The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Foster Wallace: I'm not saying watching t.v. is bad, or a waste of your time anymore than - like - masturbation is bad or a waste of your time; it's pleasant little way to spend a few minutes - but if you're doing it 20 times day; if your primary sexual relationship is with your hand - something is wrong...

    David Lipsky: Yeah, except with masturbation at least some action is being performed, right; isn't it that, that's better?

    David Foster Wallace: Ok; you can make me look like a real dick if you print this...

    David Lipsky: [laughs] No, I'm not going to - but if you can, speak into the mike...

    David Foster Wallace: Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off. But what you're really doing, I think, is you're running a movie in your head. You're having a fantasy relationship with somebody who is not real... strictly to stimulate a neurological response. So as the Internet grows in the next 10, 15 years... and virtual reality pornography becomes a reality, we're gonna have to develop some real machinery inside our guts... to turn off pure, unalloyed pleasure. Or, I don't know about you, I'm gonna have to leave the planet. 'Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier... and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable... to sit alone with images on a screen... given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that's fine in low doses, but if it's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die.

    David Lipsky: Well, come on.

    David Foster Wallace: In a meaningful way, you're going to die.

  • David Foster Wallace: There's a thing in the book about how when somebody leaps from a burning skyscraper, it's not that they're not afraid of falling anymore, it's that the alternative is so awful. And so then you're invited to consider what could be so awful that leaping to your death would seem like an escape from it. I don't know if you have any experience with this kind of thing. But it's worse than any kind of physical injury. It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function. It's really horrible.