The End Of The Tour Analysis

As a big movie fan I have found amazing films all over, whether it be big-budget action dramas, or low-budget indie moves, you just need to open your horizons and try new things. I try to do this by looking at trailers for upcoming movies online which helped me stumble upon a trailer for The End of the Tour, which from the start caught my eye and had me anticipating it 's release. I winded up watching it at home one night and after the film, I was just over come with amazement at this movie that came out to good reviews but, sadly, didn 't gross highly or get much talk from the public. The End of the Tour is a film by James Ponsoldt that puts to life the real five day interview done by David Lipsky on David Foster Wallace, a writer who had just released his new critically acclaimed book, …show more content…
It is concerned with the breaking down of known truths, systems, frameworks, certainties, and definitions. It feels that there is no singular truth or answer, and rejected the sentiments that there is one true God, history is progress or peace on Earth. Instead of one overall truth, things are understood on a micro level, ideas like reality are realized by how we see them individually. In literature, or movies in my case, this is characterized by self-referentially, moral relativism, cynicism and irony. The End of the Tour is a film centered around the life of David Foster Wallace, a writer who often criticized postmodernism and talked about the movement he thought would follow, post-postmodernism or New Sincerity, which would then influence the way the film on his life would be made. I will use the postmodern and post-postmodern lens to look at life of David Foster Wallace in relation to my lens, the film 's structure, and the main