Well - it's definitely a play rendered as a film. The kind of play where you ache after a while, you start to feel uncomfortable in your seat and you wish you could walk out because it's just too many words and the set doesn't change often enough to keep up interest and its all just a bit too artsy and meaningful.
Within that the concept is interesting and the bits tacked on at the beginning and the end are actually the best parts of the story as far as a watchable film goes.
So if you don't like to miss out on curiosity of it all but don't want to torture yourself either watch through to the start of the transformation scene with Zero Mostel and then skip through the set in-apartment mono-tonal scenes taking in the gist but not the length to the point where Gene wilder leaves, then watch the ending.
Result - the oddball IMDB 6.0 40 minute film you probably came here for and none of the worthy and outdated verbiage about herd conformity.
Experiencing films like this one without the associated pain "are what that FFWD button on your remote is for".
Within that the concept is interesting and the bits tacked on at the beginning and the end are actually the best parts of the story as far as a watchable film goes.
So if you don't like to miss out on curiosity of it all but don't want to torture yourself either watch through to the start of the transformation scene with Zero Mostel and then skip through the set in-apartment mono-tonal scenes taking in the gist but not the length to the point where Gene wilder leaves, then watch the ending.
Result - the oddball IMDB 6.0 40 minute film you probably came here for and none of the worthy and outdated verbiage about herd conformity.
Experiencing films like this one without the associated pain "are what that FFWD button on your remote is for".