Review of The End of the Tour (2015) by Ben H — 17 Sep 2015

David Foster Wallace: just your regular, "knock off the old block" paranoid schizophrenic genius. A writer who wrote Infinite Jest and went on tour. He's brilliant, according to most people under 46. He has a quarky sense of humor and is not phased by your hitting on his former gf. Well, maybe a little....In The End of The Tour, Lipsky is the same character as in The Social Network, only now he's a reporter, instead of a tech-geek. He writes for Rolling Stone magazine, a fairly decent publication, and comes to know Wallace intimately.

"This is nice," Wallace comments at one point in the airplane, "But it's not real." --What is reality? That is one of the central questions in the movie. Because, as Wallace suggests, what we experience on a day-to-day basis does not qualify. Actually, nothing is really real. We invent our own realities, but our jobs, our lives: Those aren't really "real.".

To get rid of all the "voices," Wallace dances in a Baptist church basement. To each his own. He has a million pithy things to say. He's a writer. HE'S SO COOL!