I have to be honest, I have no idea when Nietzsche Wept and it is only in editing this review that I have realized how the title relates to the movie, I haven't read the original book or read any major works of any of these men but surely a novel adaptation of a fictionalized account of some real men can't really be judged by the merits of it's characters.
The way the film is, I would not recommend a soul to watch it, how much of that is to be reflected also in the works of these great minds is yet to be seen as I have not read them but surely the book that this film is based on must carry part of the burden. But the film is dry, heavy, superficial and constructed only to be a mental masturbation of recollections from the real writings of these men and of their countless scenes philosophizing in the romantic way that absolutely, cruelly takes away their realism and honesty and seeks to replace it with it's truth, a truth that does not agree with me. It's not even that what the film talks about is uninteresting but rather that it is produced in a closed/uncompelling obtuse way that it did not engage me in the movie's narrative and I'm someone who watched and loved "All the President's Men" as a kid
I don't have a liking for the vision of this film, it's badly filmed, the soundtrack is fine even if it feels lazy collecting just the classical musicians repertoire and using them in the painfully obvious way ("SWAN LAKE HAHAHA" scene comes to mind) but nonetheless that music is effective for a reason. It was great to hear some tones, some sounds of those musicians again.
5.5/10 A rather abysmally paced film that perhaps has a worth in all of its talk and walk but is so poorly shot and structured in my opinion that it is of the most superficial quality in my eyes. The stereotypes of the characters are not even properly constructed that it starts employing them in it's story to an immeasurable degree which just makes them look like mouths with words, not people.
