Depressing (spoilers)

This ended up feeling so incredibly bleak by the end. More than anything, it seemed to say to me that nothing is ever truly safe or sacred. Or, that there is ultimately nothing more important than self interest-- and the only safety to be found, is found in "aloneness." A 30 - 40 year friendship is cast off like that? Where's the respect for what they meant to each other for so many years? Is there no real need to have an honest continuity to life-- even if it means suffering through (another) difficult period?

It got to me in part because I can relate to the large difficulties in maintaining an important friendship. But regardless, they both seemed to come off as ultimately too stubborn and too selfish to save something, that, from my perspective, I would hope would be worth the work it would take to preserve.

At that age, the trauma from having to close the chapter on (and in a way refute) such a large, significant part of my life, would be far worse than finding a way to buckle down and see the project through. Or find a way to compromise without abandoning both the project and the friendship.

I don't want to pass judgement on them because I only know what was shown to me in the doc, and who am I to judge anyway, but *********, this movie was such a deflating spectacle.