Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Rating: 8.2
The first 30 minutes are incredibly well done and engaging. Aside from the wonderful screen presence of Peter Sellers, the editing is the films greatest asset, as it incorporates the random television programming and Chance's interaction with it throughout. The editor, Don Zimmerman, also does an interesting thing on several occasions where he will cut away in the middle of conversation or an anticipated action of a character, and allows the audience to fill in the blank. Even when the television is not seen in a shot, the audio remains present probably for about 70% of the film. After about an hour into Being There I started feel the film was becoming too one note with it's humor, and didn't blossom as it should have, although the ending is great as well.
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