Movie audiences should decide they’re mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore.
The “it” is the habit of filmmakers of refusing to bring any real conclusion to their stories. We’ve all seen it dozens or hundreds of times, now: The movie sets up a big conflict about how protagonist Jimmy will handle situation X once he arrives at place Z. Then, the movie meanders all around, almost randomly, and it takes forever for Jimmy to reach Z. In all the meandering, nothing in particular seems resolved, other than a sense of just how random life can be. Finally, Jimmy reaches Z, knocks on the door, and the movie ends.
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