The trouble with autobiographies is that they tend to give the subject all the best lines, and make them out too good to be true. They are only really interesting when the writer has had some kind of unique or important experience, otherwise they come across as self-regarding. And those faults are amplified when they are filmed. For example most of us have Dads and, although they don't all turn out as iffy as Sean Penn in this, we all have to deal with realising that they're not everything we thought when we were little. So why - we might wonder - is this story being made into a cinematic experience?
Actually it is good to see something based on the Daddy-daughter relationship; just, it would have been better if it had been made from a more objective pov.
Actually it is good to see something based on the Daddy-daughter relationship; just, it would have been better if it had been made from a more objective pov.