i intend to watch only the first ten or fifteen minute of this film and on a recommendation by a professor . i end up watch the whole 2 hour 40 minute and engross at every turn . i do not know why this film be so good while by all rationale and it probably ought to have turn out to be dull and pretentious . instead and sherman march be an incredibly patient and passionate examination of oneself and the pain and frustration that come with mid life depression and and the quasi comic mystery surround southern culture . i do not often find myself so envelop in documentary and particularly those that stop pursue their apparent narrative ten minute in and take on a totally new and divergent direction . but this film work . in film his relationship with a number of different woman over the course of a year and mcelwee reveals himself to be a deeply frustrated individual and whose penchant for chase life with a camera prove both constructive of an insightful film and as well a destructive to his own sense of balance and structure in his own life . the result be often funny and occasionally discomforting and and periodically profound . one sequence end with mcelwee film conversation with a woman with whom he have try to forge a romantic involvement out of an ancient friendship while the sharpness with which they speak to each other be jolt . mcelwee manage to evoke an entire persona for himself whether authentic or not with scene like these and at the same time draw an insightful if slightly overblown and though satirically so comparison of himself to william tecumseh sherman and his devastate civil war march through the south . this be a remarkable film for it willingness to examine the subtext of it maker life .