The best advice I've seen from other reviews is -- give this ten minutes and you'll know whether you should bother with the remaining hour or so. But if you love New York and its denizens, and if you romanticize its gritty, not-so-distant past (even if at the time it scared you), and if you marvel at how ordinary people can become extraordinary when given the right milieu, then I think you will love this film.
The cinematography is intimate, almost as if taken with a selfie stick. This intimacy is well considered and executed, because the film amounts to a soliloquy of a thoughtful and thought-provoking young man who can definitely string together a sentence or two or twenty. Is he self-absorbed? Yes. Is he boring? Sometimes. Isn't that the point of watching this film? This effort is not about viewer entertainment per se, although viewers can find this sort of thing very entertaining if they have the right mindset.
Bottom line: you do have to know what you're getting into, but if you're up for it, so is he.
The cinematography is intimate, almost as if taken with a selfie stick. This intimacy is well considered and executed, because the film amounts to a soliloquy of a thoughtful and thought-provoking young man who can definitely string together a sentence or two or twenty. Is he self-absorbed? Yes. Is he boring? Sometimes. Isn't that the point of watching this film? This effort is not about viewer entertainment per se, although viewers can find this sort of thing very entertaining if they have the right mindset.
Bottom line: you do have to know what you're getting into, but if you're up for it, so is he.