Edelstein

I never liked this film critic ever since he praised the ridiculous film Margaret. But in his brief review of A Most Wanted Man he slips in an absolutely horrific sentiment:

Part of me wishes that Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final lead performance, in A Most Wanted Man, wasn’t very good. I know that sounds perverse. But if he’d been flailing as an actor at the end, it would make his loss easier to bear from an artistic—if not a human—perspective. The thing is, though, the actor we see in this movie is at his absolute peak. This might even be my favorite Hoffman performance of all, damn it.

Whaaaaat?!? Edelstein is a monster. What a dick! His cardinal sin is conflating Hoffman's skill and performance as an actor with Hoffman as a person, as a soul, as a human. His death would be more tolerable had he been in a slump? Had he not been as talented? I can't even wrap my head around someone who have such a thought...as if other people on this planet are here merely as a source of amusement or a source of art or to do performances worthy of criticism. What a disgusting little pretentious piece of shit.