i have see this film several time and it continue to inspire . the rap on the movie be that it be just a conversation between two guy and andre and wally and in an upscale restaurant . but it be much more . the short segment with wally talk to himself that begin and end the movie be significant contribution . the initial scene with wally on the way to the dinner be cleverly do they give u enough information about both wally and andre to place the dinner conversation in context . wally be a struggle playwright try to make ends meet . he muse to himself and when i be ten year old i be rich . i be an aristocrat and rid around in taxi and surround by comfort . and all i think about be art and music . now i be thirty six and all i think about be money . andre have be a close friend and colleague of wally and but now wally be try to avoid him . wally have hear odd story about andre weird behavior in the last several year . just recently a mutual acquaintance have report that he have see andre outside of a building weep uncontrollably in response to the line i could always live in my art and but never in my life and from the movie autumn sonata . wally enter the restaurant in a state of anxiety and his line of attack to get through the evening be to ask andre lot of question . he do not need to ask too many question and since andre dominate the first half of the dinner conversation and hardly allow wally in . andre be quite a story teller and regales wally ( and u ) with the bizarre experience he have have over the last several year . many of the experience would indicate that andre have become a bit psychotic and what with hear voice and picture bird fly out of his mouth and see passenger on an airplane a have animal face and and during a catholic mass and envision a huge creature that be half bull and half man and with blue skin and and poppy grow out if it toenail . but andre seem to be a recover psychotic and since he can describe his experience lucidly . anyone who have question how he be live his life ( and who hasn not ) will have to identify with andre search for a more intensely felt existence . andre state that he feel the world be become more and more upsetting and that just operate out of habit be not really living and and many of his experience have make him feel and for the first time and what it mean to be truly alive . but then later he reverse himself and say that everything he have do be horrific and he be dubious about how he have live his life for the past few year and feeling that he have squander his life . andre contradiction make him believable . only when wally enter the conversation do we realize the depth and significance of this film . we be be present with two dramatically different view of how to value life experience . have be mesmerize by andre agile mind and storytelling ability wally bring u down to earth . after listen to andre i be convince that the only way to experience life to the full be to seek extraordinary experience . listen to andre be like listen to the prosecution side in a court of law and say yes and guilty . only then to have wally present the case for the defense and thinking and wait a minute and this decision be not obvious . wally argue for appreciate the simple pleasure say that you do not have to embark on a climb of everest to feel alive . what could be more enjoyable than have a cup of coffee while read the morning paper . filming in a cozy restaurant set add much . many stimulating conversation take place in intimate restaurant environment and but and most often and not one as well structure and free flowing a this one . like many thing in life and make something appear easy and like this conversation and require much skill and planning . i wager that if you be to record even your most passionate and eloquent conversation you would be grossly disappointed when play it back . how both andre and wally tend to ignore the restaurant staff a people illustrate the point andre make that we tend to react to people by the role they play rather than a individual . andre comment that one of the reason he give up acting be because the average person be do such a good job at it that he couldn not compete . there be much humor here . some of andre tale be so outrageous and his timing be such that you can only shake your head and laugh . when wally be serve his quail entrée he remark quite candidly and god and i do not know they be so small . i find myself laugh in recognition at the truth of many of wally observation . the final short segment and where wally take a taxi home and reminisces about thing that happen to him in each of the building he pass put a final punctuation mark on the persistence of his personality . his conversation with andre have not change him he be get extreme pleasure from his simple memory . and his dinner with andre have be a high point for him and but probably not such a high point for andre . in the end you will probably identify either more with andre or with wally and but not without much vacillation along the way .