aspid-istra

I found none of the characters worth knowing, although I found the acting entirely persuasive (I could imagine they were who they pretended to be). The writer sets them together in a series of interactions, not really a plot, that seem to elicit questions of identity and internal development, but they aren't quite fleshed out and they are not resolved. So the viewer is left, at the end, with no meaning substantially realized.

Why are these lives important to me as a viewer and what are they to mean to me? These essential questions go unanswered and I wonder what I could have been doing in the two hours I spent watching that might have given me something either to enjoy it or to live by in some wisdom a film can, at times, impart.

Great fun, superbly written and rich with comic character acting at the highest level.