The totality of death can be so overwhelming that, when people face it directly, it becomes hard to grasp in its entirety. They often do not fixate on the obvious, overwhelming totality of someone’s human existence ceasing to be. Instead, it’s the small indignities of life that stick in people’s craw and gnaw away at them.
That’s the case for Marc Maron’s Langston Stanfield, the protagonist of Rob Burnett’s “In Memoriam.” When the film picks up with his story on the set of a crappy TV police procedural, this sellout actor has traded away most of his artistic integrity and personal relationships in pursuit of elusive career highs.
