“The End of the Tour” quotes
(2015)
Title The End of the Tour
Year 2015
Director James Ponsoldt
Genre Drama, Biography
Year 2015
Director James Ponsoldt
Genre Drama, Biography
Plot – The film brings to the big screen a complex and intimate portrait of the writer David Foster Wallace, one of the best writers of our times who committed suicide on 12 September 2008. Lipsky's book, which the film is based on, is the chronicle of five days he spent with DFW while he was traveling around the United States for a reading tour of his "Infinite Jest". Lipsky adapts “The End of the Tour” adding also some ideas from the writer's official biography, "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story ", signed by “New Yorker” journalist DT Max.
All actors – Anna Chlumsky, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Joan Cusack, Mamie Gummer, Ron Livingston, Becky Ann Baker, Mickey Sumner, Dan John Miller, Stephanie Cotton, Punnavith Koy, Alexander Christopher Jones
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“This piece would be so much better if it was just you. Just keep talking, you'll save me a lot of trouble.”
“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.”
“- David Lipsky: Nice view.
- David Foster Wallace: Thank you. I can't take credit for it.”“- David Foster Wallace: I'm not so sure you want to be me.
- David Lipsky: I don't.”“Being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it makes it difficult to be around other people.”
“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.”
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