I came across this movie totally by chance during a very dark age of my life (trouble and strife at it's best, but whatever...) when sitting a bit stoned and quite drunk in front of my TV one night, watching Channel 1 (free public TV here in Germany) and then they showed this great story... i don't have that often, but this movie left me crying...
The first thing which really got under my skin is that everyone is this movie is running backwards, only the creative, the denying, the artists keep on moving forward.
The second thing was the underlying message of the movie and that is: Sometimes you gotta say NO, regardless of how much it hurts or what pains you might have to stand through for it, but for the sake of your soul and good conscious you sometimes have to say it, and stick to it.
A really great story, with impressing views and duologue's but really overwhelming monologues (the weekly pieces the protagonist writes and plays in front of the die-hard-audience that comes to his theater).
The first thing which really got under my skin is that everyone is this movie is running backwards, only the creative, the denying, the artists keep on moving forward.
The second thing was the underlying message of the movie and that is: Sometimes you gotta say NO, regardless of how much it hurts or what pains you might have to stand through for it, but for the sake of your soul and good conscious you sometimes have to say it, and stick to it.
A really great story, with impressing views and duologue's but really overwhelming monologues (the weekly pieces the protagonist writes and plays in front of the die-hard-audience that comes to his theater).