Jay D 's Watching’s review published on Letterboxd:
As someone who went through some serious eye trauma as a child, this particular film was a little uncomfortable, especially at first, with a parade of talking heads setting the stage by telling their various horror stories of things that happened to their eyes--it's not just a gimmick really, as it gets you in the mood and frames Spalding Gray's monologue, about suddenly finding something had gone badly wrong with his eye and flailing about in his life while trying to put off getting surgery to fix it because he didn't like the idea of the surgery--as a fascinating riff on the whole 'bad things happening out of the blue' genre, but aided by Soderburgh's colorful framing of his stories as a sort of (ironic) visual aid to the mood created by individual segments of the monologue, Gray's story isn't really about his eye, in the end--or rather, I should say, it's not JUST about his eye. It's about his approach to life, and how the impact of waking up one morning and finding your eye not working the way it used to fits in there. Also, he has one of those voices that a person could listen to for hours.
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