If the point of a film or documentary is to make you feel, then this was a straight up success because at times I felt myself physically shaking with something resembling panic. The tension as he climbed past 'The Boulder Problem' was excellent.
As a study into the manic mindset of the sort of person who would do this kind of thing, this was also a very interesting documentary - though I'd have loved to know more about the psychological…
I mean... I watched this expecting a documentary but to be honest it didn't have any narrative to speak of so didn't really hook me at all.
There's no denying it looks beautiful- how can mountains not? - and I liked that curious brand of epic mountain music that pervades films like this, but, nah. It wasn't even a particularly impressive account of obsession or single-mindedness for me.
Truly one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life. I didn't laugh a single time. Not even a good parody of silent films. Just dull pretentious crap in every respect.
If it hadn't been part of film club I'd have bailed after 10 minutes.
Veers the full range from blackly comic to simply black.
I really enjoyed this. The dialogue and human interaction that Mcdonagh clearly finds fascinating is something I share entirely - a sort of Irish Quentin Tarantino. This was both a trite observation of a decaying relationship between two people at opposite ends of a social or intellectual scale, and also a really insightful commentary om that exact same subject matter.
Veers into sympathetic territory for Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan,…
