Mindwalk
Let us know how the water rises.
The right way to understand Mindwalk is that it's one of the greatest education films ever made: meant not to be consumed in a theatre, but instead via VHS, inserted clumsily by a substitute teacher. At the conclusion of it, we should imagine said substitute teacher turning off the tape, blipping off the TV, and saying — pensively and tentatively, to the small coterie assembled — "so, what did you guys think?"
I'm not exaggerating when I say this film is almost exactly what would happen if you asked an LLM to write a chapter-by-chapter introduction to systems theory but in the style of the Before trilogy, and the fact that it works at all is a testament to three performances and their ability to imbue a didactic and bland script of all time with brief and lovely glimpses of flair. Some credit to be given to Mont Saint-Michel for being so breathtakingly beautiful that you are not just willing but happy to listen to Sam Waterston play faux-Socratic for 120 minutes in the foreground.
My Dinner With Andre works so well because it feels like a great conversation, with the halts and recurses and progressions. This film is The Goal — worse (for me), it's The Goal on a subject that I already know well.