SPOILERS
In this movie I needed a completed insight from the filmmaker in order to feel satisfied. I felt that maybe she (the filmmaker or the novelist?) has experienced this dynamic in her own life up to a certain point, and then she let us jump off the roof and die. I did like the vital portrayal of Paulie's state of psyche, however. (Classically Neptunian for those familiar in Freudian psychodynamics, and in this case more of a Venus-Moon-Neptune.) (Un)Fortunately(?), I've experienced it, and it spurs an inner growth if you can survive it. Some don't. So, the ending may have been a truism. But the filmmaker owed it to the viewer to show different possible outcomes. It needed to be a longer piece. But, she can't produce what she hasn't lived and doesn't know. Maybe the issue was remaining true to the original novel which I haven't read. If that was the case, then the movie should not have been made, ideally, although who can criticize scoring the funds and getting the work? Perhaps this movie can be considered a wasted effort, but it was a decent effort, so she gets an "E' for that, at least, I would say.
In this movie I needed a completed insight from the filmmaker in order to feel satisfied. I felt that maybe she (the filmmaker or the novelist?) has experienced this dynamic in her own life up to a certain point, and then she let us jump off the roof and die. I did like the vital portrayal of Paulie's state of psyche, however. (Classically Neptunian for those familiar in Freudian psychodynamics, and in this case more of a Venus-Moon-Neptune.) (Un)Fortunately(?), I've experienced it, and it spurs an inner growth if you can survive it. Some don't. So, the ending may have been a truism. But the filmmaker owed it to the viewer to show different possible outcomes. It needed to be a longer piece. But, she can't produce what she hasn't lived and doesn't know. Maybe the issue was remaining true to the original novel which I haven't read. If that was the case, then the movie should not have been made, ideally, although who can criticize scoring the funds and getting the work? Perhaps this movie can be considered a wasted effort, but it was a decent effort, so she gets an "E' for that, at least, I would say.