What is wrong with people? Wittgenstein had an eventful, interesting life and was one of the greatest philosophers to ever live. He deserves so much better than this pretentious, pointless disaster of a film.

I felt like I was listening to an awesome band's "greatest hits" collection. You get all of his most well known quotations and anecdotes about his life strung together one after another. It's fun but does little to deepen your understanding of the material.

Philosophy yay!

Having studied philosophy I think I can safely say that judging by Jarman's emphases, he does not have a good grasp of Wittgenstein's thought OR of his biography. Now it may be argued that Jarman's intentions were to make some sort of an avant-garde half-fictionalized thingie with no real connection to Wittgenstein, but then what's the point. This is an insubstantial if moderately interesting piece of cinema. It's strange that Terry Eagleton scripted this.

Un-Biopic at its finest 75 minutes.