A review by msand3
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen

3.0

My least-favorite of Ibsen’s later prose dramas, John Gabriel Borkman is about a disgraced financier punished for embezzlement and living an isolated existence. His life is defined by people he has used for personal gain -- a woman who once loved him whom he ignored for money; her twin sister, whom he married for convenience; his son, onto whom he projects a future based on the failed life he has lived. The final scene is too overwrought and obviously symbolic to have made much of a lasting impact on me. I thought this drama was a quite standard, and thus disappointing, work from Ibsen.