Originally Posted by Frownland

Wilder and the ending are great for sure but unfortunately I found the movie pretty lacking. It was very much like a made-for-television play with little cinematic elements. The cinematic elements that were present were largely to frame the comedic aspects of the play, which makes it part of a trend of readings that take Ionesco's ironies and cheapen them into punchline format in a way that undermines the message. That's more of a personal contention really, I'm not sure how Ionesco viewed his work or what the original performances were like.