It’s always a bit shameful to watch a movie about how watching movies could be detrimental to your mental health (and thus bodily/overall health). The End of the Tour is openly critical of itself, which seems contradictory as a piece of entertainment. How does a viewer watch this and not also feel some sort of critical error within themselves? But sometimes we need to be reminded that we actually need to live, and do things in the world, instead of just sitting in front of a screen and watching something. David Foster Wallace had a mind that could see the dark, hidden nuances in consumerism, and entertainment, and future technology (and like a bunch of other stuff), and how all of those things can come together to potentially destroy us. From what I’ve read of Infinite Jest, it seems to be an examination of the effects technology and entertainment can have on people. In his view, those things can be as damaging to us as hard drugs and alcohol are (or potentially even more damaging). So where do we draw the line on innovation? Where do we draw the line on our humanly impulses, on our need to satisfy some sort of ever-growing entertainment addiction within ourselves? Where do we draw the line on how much television, or how many movies, we watch? Well, that’s a tough question. Better watch The End of the Tour first, before you come up with your answer.

4 out of 5 stars