Commendable effort at a very, very slow pace! Nowadays I seem to find myself watching too many movies with no climax. More like a depiction of everyday’s life. That is not necessarily wrong but to spend time to end up finding myself right at where I started takes a mood.
Perhaps that is what my life seems to be right now as well and that fact makes me impatient about others happening to be as stuck as I feel? On the plus side of this film are the use of graphic sequences to depict the impressions left on the main character by others, as he associates such mementos with what was socially and culturally happening during those times.
Christopher Plummer excels in his role as a gay who gets out of the closet right in time to taste its perks before he dies while Ethan Hawke’s performance happens in the solitude of his own pessimistic thoughts, as manifested to the viewers with sketches and conversations with his dad’s dog. Kudos to the dog!