Funkytown

It took awhile to like this film--the first few moments, I was beginning to assume it was just another period piece throwing disco music and wide lapels at us. Instead, this film is what "Last Days of Disco" should have been--a dark film with a message. The hanky moment at one-hour 40 minutes into it. Instead of a single club focus, this film dips into the culture beyond a club and focuses, like SNF, on the conflict disco dance clubbing created between families and when promiscuity and drugs shattered families. It also throws in a current with the business of music and disco--when artists were cheated out of royalties and the transitions some one-hit wonders were able to undergo to sustain themselves and careers while others faded into oblivion and a haze of drugs.

The conflicted character of Tino serves as a perfect representative of those men then, and now, who saw the need to fulfill cultural obligations to raise a family, yet a craving to satisfy their innate, birthright.

FYI: white party in this film refers to participants wearing all-white, not the 1990's circuit parties.