It is concerned with the breaking down of known truths, systems, frameworks, certainties, and definitions. It feels that there is no singular truth or answer, and rejected the sentiments that there is one true God, history is progress or peace on Earth. Instead of one overall truth, things are understood on a micro level, ideas like reality are realized by how we see them individually. In literature, or movies in my case, this is characterized by self-referentially, moral relativism, cynicism and irony. The End of the Tour is a film centered around the life of David Foster Wallace, a writer who often criticized postmodernism and talked about the movement he thought would follow, post-postmodernism or New Sincerity, which would then influence the way the film on his life would be made. I will use the postmodern and post-postmodern lens to look at life of David Foster Wallace in relation to my lens, the film 's structure, and the main
It is concerned with the breaking down of known truths, systems, frameworks, certainties, and definitions. It feels that there is no singular truth or answer, and rejected the sentiments that there is one true God, history is progress or peace on Earth. Instead of one overall truth, things are understood on a micro level, ideas like reality are realized by how we see them individually. In literature, or movies in my case, this is characterized by self-referentially, moral relativism, cynicism and irony. The End of the Tour is a film centered around the life of David Foster Wallace, a writer who often criticized postmodernism and talked about the movement he thought would follow, post-postmodernism or New Sincerity, which would then influence the way the film on his life would be made. I will use the postmodern and post-postmodern lens to look at life of David Foster Wallace in relation to my lens, the film 's structure, and the main