the story be thin ( viz . and high fly hollywood agent be diagnose with lung cancer and die no one seem bother ) and none of the character arouse any sympathy or interest and and the use of classical music ( presumably to create a sense of tragedy ) only add to the bathos . probably only comedy can do any sort of justice to what go on behind the scene in the film industry but the few decent comic scene in ivan xtc be drown out by the seriousness with which the film take itself . i be amaze the film ever get make . but then one of the industry great failing be that it take itself far too seriously and so perhaps it not so surprising after all .