Spalding Gray was a storyteller; this is Steven Soderbergh’s thoughtful reconstruction of Spalding Gray’s life and self. It is a non-narrative, low-key, documentary bio that looks at his stage life, his family background, and his creation of a self built around theater and his semi-autobiographical, candid, sometimes outrageous, fictionalized non-fiction monologues. These were, Gray came to feel, prose poems about himself and his world and, over time, he came to incorporate his audience into the work itself by interviewing them. We learn about Gray, but the question of his 2004 suicide lingers over the end. We’re not inside his mind then, of course, although we see his pain and limitations enforced by a terrible accident in Ireland that left him struggling to regain his mobility. I can only assume that this, along with a predisposition to depression (his mom had many difficulties and eventually committed suicide) led him to that exit. See this one