This film fascinated me for the first 30 minutes, and then I started fast-forwarding.
Only once were we given a view of the man's wider life: it remained obsessed with this Unique Man On His Own.
The supposed philosophical insights were not worth spitting on.
The opening story - he would have rescued personal items and not his relatives - tells us just that this is a man close to sociopathy, or maybe fully so. He seems not violent, but also totally insensitive to how he must be regularly upsetting people by his burglaries.
I have a nasty feeling that the director and script writer are much the same. They definitely wanted us to like this creep.
The man seems to resent the success of his victim, when his own art seems never to have gained money or recognition. But many live with such things, including a few who get fame after their deaths, as was true of William Blake. It is no excuse for this fictional character being a criminal parasite and wrecker of the lives of others.
It seems many were offended by the slowness, just as I was. They expand on the man's life just once, which was a welcome break. But there should have been a lot more. A lot less about his struggles to break free.
Only once were we given a view of the man's wider life: it remained obsessed with this Unique Man On His Own.
The supposed philosophical insights were not worth spitting on.
The opening story - he would have rescued personal items and not his relatives - tells us just that this is a man close to sociopathy, or maybe fully so. He seems not violent, but also totally insensitive to how he must be regularly upsetting people by his burglaries.
I have a nasty feeling that the director and script writer are much the same. They definitely wanted us to like this creep.
The man seems to resent the success of his victim, when his own art seems never to have gained money or recognition. But many live with such things, including a few who get fame after their deaths, as was true of William Blake. It is no excuse for this fictional character being a criminal parasite and wrecker of the lives of others.
It seems many were offended by the slowness, just as I was. They expand on the man's life just once, which was a welcome break. But there should have been a lot more. A lot less about his struggles to break free.