Well, I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it makes it difficult to be around other people.

The end of the tour – 3/5

I think there's a great movie to be told about David Foster Wallace, and this only touches on the potential of that. It's clear that the thoughts that consume/consumed him is reflected in his work, but it feels enjoyable albeit small here. It's a nice conversation and it feels like a nice conversation but I think it deserves more. And so I think a better movie would have been to combine his interview and his books and his articles into one meta-narrative, some larger epic about not just him but the entire world's inability to communicate effectively with another living person, and what it means to drown in America's great chemical cocktail of loneliness, despair, and hope. "The author looms above his page And thinks it strange that at his age, He can not find the proper words To describe his only world."