Kevin Spacey is completely brilliant, as he usually is.
It’s very cleverly written, and because of that it makes you feel.
It makes you feel sadness, loneliness, humor, desperation, longings for things past and long gone, brief moments of exhilaration…the same way the characters do.
But the characters seem to exist simply for this purpose.
They’re not very multi-dimensional at all…but in order for a movie to exist, there have to be characters. So they do what they do, and you feel what you feel, and you think what you think…messages sent, points made, mission accomplished.
So it’s brilliant…but in the end, it all feels just a little bit empty. And all the messages and points it makes fade away from your memory and emotion almost as quickly as they arrived, making them irrelevant.
But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun to watch. And it’s quite a glow, while it lasts.
Inspirational Quote: “Sometimes there’s so much…beauty…in the world…I feel like I can’t take it…and my heart…is just going to cave in.”
Grade: A-