Jarman's theatrical, dark Sesame Street approach seems deeply at odds with Wittgenstein's own self-conception, and I'm not quite sure it works, but the juxtaposition is fascinating.
Karl Johnson spends most of the time on screen as adult Wittgenstein playing a man who is struggling to articulate ideas that always just elude his ability to capture them, and seems quite adept at it.
Jarman's choice to have Wittgenstein first articulate his rejection of private meaning (which inevitably isolates) in favor of…
