| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Impressive look at genius and its inability to live with others because there are so few other geniuses to share ones genius with. Deep down, despite their talent and success, they are alone and afraid and often quite thin-skinned. Criticism of their greatness – genuine as their greatness is – always comes from those less talented than themselves and can seem like a claim that they are not so great (&/or that the critic is greater); while confirming the loneliness of being the best when surrounded by those who do not understand one.
Here Orson WELLES is presented as someone who can only be charming with lesser mortals, because he can never have a true soul mate on his intellectual level. The minimal plot states simply that the talented make their own way in life while the less talented must make do as best they can in the subservient shadows of their betters.
The insular style of the movie conveys well the separated-from-reality nature of the acting profession and its endemic inability to distinguish temperament from talent. This partly becomes the movie's problem since we, too, become partly submerged in the first-person mire of those who think speaking the words of the talented makes them just as talented.
Zac EFRON proves he can act in the part of the young actor learning the ropes from the more experienced guys – as he surely was, himself, when making this film. All of the actors acquit themselves well by making their characters flesh and blood – especially Christian McKAY as Orson Welles.
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