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The film follows Spalding Gray, who has an eye condition and is informed to take a surgery. Afraid of the dangers that surgery could bring, he decides to seek for a safer alternative treatment.
At best, Gray is a tragicomic Everyman who strikes an empathic chord in his admiring audience; at worst, he's a middle-aged, self-absorbed, hopelessly provincial New Yorker -- an urban hick who won't shut up.
The late Spalding Gray's monologue is typically fascinating, and Soderbergh's creative staging is a treat.
March 11, 2004
Austin Chronicle
Not only is it interesting to follow the course of Gray's storyline, the movie is also equally interesting to view, even if the storyteller is just sitting in front of a desk most of the time.
Using every cinematic trick in the book, [director] Soderbergh turns Gray's one-man world into the most surreal mind-expander since Alice fell down the rabbit hole.
It is haunting, though. How could it not be, when the last lines of the monolog are "Ecstasy, despair, ecstasy, despair" and some mention of a big fish?
A chatty, colorful, nicely sardonic account of how a crisis led Mr. Gray to assess his medical state, consider his mortality and take one more funny, self-dramatizing look at the eccentric world around him.
May 20, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle
There's something intrinsically insincere about the whole quest. Gray is on a search less for a cure than for material.