. because it literally demand all of your attention . this be a great movie for select audience who happen to be in the right mood for it . i will warn you that the rest of the review contain spoiler and but that shouldn not prevent you from enjoy the film since it really have no plot twist or turn . it not about that . 99 % of the movie take place at a table in the new york restaurant where wallace shawn and a playwright and and andre gregory and a theatre manager and be have dinner and a near two hour conversation after a long time apart . the very beginning show wallace get on the subway and come to the restaurant and reveals that he have not be so successful in his recent pursuit and that recently he have find himself only care about money due to this lack of success and and that this be a somewhat reluctant reunion he be attend . the first part be andre recount his professional burn out and his subsequent travel to poland and the sahara and england and and tibet to look for meaning in his life . the next part be wallace respond to all of this and and the final part consist of andre and wallace basically agree to disagree and all while din at a fine restaurant . although andre tale be fascinate and it be very hard to relate to him . it be easy to relate to wallace a he enter the restaurant somewhat downtrodden and listen patiently to andre adventure and and then seem to find his spark when he respond to andre tale by say that it seem to him that all of andre exploit be an effort to strip away the purpose from his life in an attempt to experience life a pure be . shawn clearly state that he see no value in just exist and a he believe we be all define by our purpose and pursuit . even if he be home and with nothing to do and he say and he would pick up a book . the two continue to talk and but neither be basically move from their original position . the final scene be wallace take a taxi home and and mention that each street hold a memory for him and from his childhood to the present and and how this cheer him . he seem more upbeat for the encounter and although the voice over still have him think about practical matter at the end . i have see this movie several time and and i always enjoy it . perhaps i be a bit too much like wallace and in that i always pick up on practical point of andre exploit that always seem to vex me . for one and this movie be set in 1981 and and poland have be firmly under communist control for the last 35 year . what exactly be the communist authority do while andre and an american and have several dozen polish citizen out in the wood carry on a theatre workshop . i can not imagine they would have be too sympathetic . how do andre even get into poland . likewise with tibet and which be locate inside communist china . remember and this be year before china become the more easily penetrable capitalist machine it be today . why be it that the practical matter of make a living and and the cost of world travel while not work and do not seem to impede andre from travel around the world and or even seem to enter his mind . what be his family do all of this time that he be globe trotting . the story of travel to poland be not the result of a geopolitically unaware screenplay and a gregory actually do drop out of theatre for awhile in the late 70 and travel about the world and include to poland . however and it be still a fascinating movie and but you must concentrate because the movie be pure conversation and and if you get distract at all you will miss something . not get distract be difficult and a the entire two hour conversation be food for thought . this surely isn not a film for everyone and but i certainly enjoy it . it a great contrast between two people from the same world new york world of theatre who have two completely different outlook on life . one seek for mean in grand adventure in exotic setting and think everything in his life should be repeatedly examine for continue validity and the other be content with the simple pleasure of life and enjoy stability and continuity .