Selvmordsturisten

Kinda claustrophobic, mesmirizing start, but later on this movie looses some of it's mystery and with it some of it's spark.

The story is in essence quite dark and depressing, because we see how a man is slowly loosing grip on life after he has been diagnosed with a terminal disease.

However depressing in nature the subject of this story about dying might be, it is photographed in a tranquil, peaceful way and the acting is true to life and touching to watch.

Not for those who want to see a cheery picture, but for those who can stumach a true slowburning drama about how to deal with knowing that you are about to die soon...

,,, it's just that it is sooo slow. It's an expansion on what Sol goes through in his last moments of life, when he decides to check out, in Soylent Green, with a dash of Carousel and wanting more life, like the runners in Logans' Run,,, and a dash of Roy Batty from Blade Runner added into the script. Yep, his brain tumor might explain some of the more disturbing occurences and you have to question what version of reality is transpiring. It IS disturbing to think that this might be the way our lives end up. We all want to die peacefully in out sleep with out boots on, but, we can see right now that this will not be the case for many people. This film is going to make a lot more people think about that possibility.

Slow, depressing, dark and surreal.

Don't watch this if you are feeling maudlin.

What is reality, what is not?

A bit like Bobby's dream!

1) Does anything happen? We don't know! 2) Depression turned to 11 3) Loads of close up poker face shots of Mr. Lannister with nothing happening. 4) Shutter Island/A Cure for Wellness vibes but certainly inferior overall. 5) Cinematography is quite spectacular.

How can anyone with a huge number of production people, finance, actors and script writers etc make such an utterly pointless movie? Every now and then I was really hoping that a particular scene was going to lead to something or somewhere interesting but no, nothing. However, I was stupid enough to carry on regardless and hung around until the completely inconsequential finale - fool me once and just keep doing it and I'll bite obviously!