Tristra Shandy

I just finished watching Tristram Shandy, a so-called "film within a film". It is about a group of actors who are attempting to make a movie about a book about a man struggling to right his own autobiography. This film stars a number of British comedians, including Steve Coogan. As such, the humor is exceptionally dry, and I didn't quite understand a good deal of the jokes. I found some of the scenes to be slightly disturbing, such as the scene with the accident with the window and the scene with the giant womb. Often times it is hard to tell when the film is trying to be funny and trying to be serious, and it often jumps from the filming, to the actors off screen without warning.

However, this film does do a good job of thinning the line between the film, and the film about a film. It also does well when it creates parallels between the actors lives and the filming of the movie itself. Some of the scenes lasted much longer than was necessary, and a few became tedious to watch. I found it very difficult to watch this movie and it continued on and on for far too long. Overall, this was a film that I would rather not watch again. I found it tiring, boring, and not as funny as it attempted to be.