After watching the series, I decided to watch the movie. This time, the choice fell on the British television film Endgame (2000), directed by Conor McPherson. This is another adaptation of a play by Samuel Beckett, there are several of them, but I chose this one because of the actors. This play, of course, is not as popular as “Waiting
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After watching the series, I decided to watch the movie. This time, the choice fell on the British television film Endgame (2000), directed by Conor McPherson. This is another adaptation of a play by Samuel Beckett, there are several of them, but I chose this one because of the actors. This play, of course, is not as popular as “Waiting for Godot”, but also was repeatedly filmed, including Becket himself as a director, for some reason, however, in Germany, but did not have popularity. Of course, to talk about popularity in the case of Beckett is a little too much, because he is popular, as they say, in narrow circles. Not everyone accepts his absurdist works, but there is something that attracts attention. That's the play. The action takes place in some almost empty house, apparently, after some global catastrophe that destroyed everything and everyone. Only four remained - the owner of the "manor" (apparently, it was once all an estate) Hamm (Michael Gambon), his servant Clov (David Thewlis), and Hamm's parents are either alive or not very much - father Nagg (Charles Simon) and mother Nell (Jean Anderson). Hamm is a cripple sitting in a wheelchair, all the desires of which are fulfilled by Klov, also with difficulty moving, parents “live” in garbage cans. We see the normal routine of this life, if it can be called life at all, someone else rummaging through the memories, but we see that everything is moving towards the end. Whether it’s over this time or tomorrow, the whole game will happen again, we don’t know. Clov was about to leave (I wonder where?), but stopped and did not leave. Of course, this is another absurdity of Beckett, but maybe our life becomes one at some point. Actors play well, in fact, it is a play of good actors with a good director. I can’t say I enjoyed watching it, but certainly with interest. I will not recommend it to everyone, only to those who accept this style.
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