A tedious and ultimately pointless showing.
Put simply, it's at best an audiobook with cinematography tacked onto it with sticky putty.
The philosophical discussions that serve as the film's core, while inherently valuable, are ultimately superficial. The paradox, then, is that if the content of the film is philosophy, the ones interested in the topic have already ruminated these concepts during their first year at various universities, while the ones interested in the continuous furthering of cinema have been hoodwinked into wasting their time.
Put simply, it's at best an audiobook with cinematography tacked onto it with sticky putty.
The philosophical discussions that serve as the film's core, while inherently valuable, are ultimately superficial. The paradox, then, is that if the content of the film is philosophy, the ones interested in the topic have already ruminated these concepts during their first year at various universities, while the ones interested in the continuous furthering of cinema have been hoodwinked into wasting their time.