Movie recommendation 'Waiting for Godot' (2001)

Waiting for Godot has a special meaning for me, it was this very play that years ago made me fall in love with theatre, every time I see it I find something new to think about, some new understanding like a piece of infinite puzzle.
Waiting for Godot is written by Samuel Beckett some call it a comedy of undoing because in it Beckett successively deconstructs all the rules that used to govern play-writting before his time, others point that it belongs to the Theatre of Absurd, a form of theatre which rooted from the Absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus. Absurdism is philosophy of existentialism, pioneered by Søren Kierkegaard, and states that, while ultimate meaning might very well exist in the universe, human beings are incapable of finding it due to their mental or philosophical limitation. Therefore humanity is doomed to be faced with the Absurd, or the total absurdity of existence in lack of clearly defined purpose and meaning.

In this play two main characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot, a mythical god-like figure who will come and change their meaningless existence that consists mainly of finding different ways of killing time, their life is so bleak that they even ponder over possibility of hanging themselves because it might give them an erection. The only two other people that show up are pompous and cruel man named Pozzo and his slave servant called  Lucky, whom Pozzo  keeps on a rope like an animal and treats with utter despise. The setting is also minimalistic it consist of a a country road and a tree.

Of course all of this makes it really difficult to transfer this play onto a movie screen, all the weight of keeping the viewer interested rests on the performances of the actors. Fortunately the 2001 adaptation is great, Barry McGovern (Vladimir), Johnny Murphy (Esstragon), Alan Stanford (Pozzo) and Stephen Brennan (Lucky) do marvellous job, your eyes will stay glued to the screen all through the movie completly engrossed in their interactions, the camera work and direction are also flawless.
 
Due to it's absurdity and mind boggling qualities this play and a movie might not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you like to give your brain some exercises and ask some fundamental questions about humanity and sense of our existence you will not be disappointed.