Two hours of non-stop irrelevant gibberish dialogue, and all you learn was that Leonard Bernstein was gay & Jewish- I could've sworn he was a conductor and the composer of West Side Story, but they skipped all that. Apart from a couple of Mahler pieces the music is even dull too. Bradley Cooper looked and sounded like an android for the first hour, and Carey Mulligan sounds even weirder, along with a pitiful demeanor. Cooper supposedly wrote the screenplay - I'm sure he asked AI to do it - most of it's like listening to half a conversation and trying to work out what's even being talked about. Shocking waste of a life story and music - this could've been about any closeted old Jewish man.
Instead of being about Bernstein's life in music we're given the story of his almost non-existent relationship with his wife, and even that's not fleshed out. I don't actually know where the 129 mins went, other than all that continually pointless dialogue, which isn't insightful, it's invariably small talk.
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