I can't see anything

Well, not until Monday, anyway.

You Can See Everything finally gets its Australian release today. Rarely can I remember a film having this much chatter.

That's obviously not the case. Multiple times a year, there are films released with a significant amount of chatter. If I wanted to mention only three examples this year, I could list Backrooms, Obsession and The Odyssey. But that would only be scraping the surface.

The specific flavor of the chatter on You Can See Everything, though? That's something new. 

I suspect there are plenty of things I don't know about how this film is brilliant. I do know at least one spoiler, which I stumbled across by googling a redacted name in an awards prediction article, foolishly thinking I could find out about the redacted name without actually learning it. Such a novice. But I also know I would have had this spoiled for me a long time before seeing the movie, even if I hadn't googled it. It's starting to appear in headlines about the movie. 

I also know it's nearly three hours long. Wow. 

My instinct, of course, is to rush out to see it tonight, to post a review tomorrow morning before the weekend. Even though the things I think are probably brilliant about it would also mean that it's not the kind of review I can just quickly toss off. Not like I haven't "performed," as it were, under such conditions before. 

But I can't do that. 

For one, I'm the only parent at home right now. My wife is away in Tasmania, and my sons and I will follow her tomorrow night. We're all returning on Sunday. It doesn't really work to have the lone parent be out at the movies for a total of four hours, including commute time -- even if a 16-year-old and a 12-year-old would be able to handle themselves fine under those conditions. 

But secondly, it's a movie my wife really wants to see with me. In fact, she's so keen on it, she actually spearheaded purchase of tickets for the first day after we return from our trip out of town. 

You have to understand how rare this is. It's not that my wife doesn't like watching movies. She still watches a couple dozen a year, perhaps more than that. But even with a movie she really wants to see, she'll usually wait for me to initiate going -- which is usually a result of her not knowing when they're getting released and that sort of thing. 

Well, in this case, she was the one who brought the subject to me, and a few minutes later, our tickets were purchased.

So it'll be Monday night. I'll have to see if I can continue to dodge any remaining spoilers before then. 

And review on Tuesday.

Or maybe Wednesday.