Review of A Ghost Story (2017) by Drcosby — 29 Jul 2017

I guess David Lowery decided that the best way to make the point that ghosts' lives are boring and endless is to create a boring, endless movie about them. If he was trying to create a subtle metaphor between the futility of his fictional ghost's life and our own, he threw subtlety out the window he decide to smack us over the head with a freshman-in-college level diatribe about how the universe is all going to wind down one day, so everything we do is ultimately for naught.

Maybe I am getting old and jaded, but this was a shallow movie whose only points have already been made so many times and so many better ways (i.e. see Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for a funny take on pointlessness or even Lowery's own TV show Rectify for an example on futility) that it really had no reason to be made.

If Lowery wanted to explore a story about the endless lives of ghosts, he should have concentrated on the details of their day-to-day existence, and let the audience extrapolate that into hopelessness.

Instead, he went straight for the hopelessness leaving nothing for the audience to do except nap or maybe think about how much better their lives would be if they would only get up and walk out of the theater.