A portrait of one of the few remaining men only 'flophouses' on New York City's infamous skid row, the Bowery.A portrait of one of the few remaining men only 'flophouses' on New York City's infamous skid row, the Bowery.A portrait of one of the few remaining men only 'flophouses' on New York City's infamous skid row, the Bowery.
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Ray: Once you take the cherry out of life. Once you take your wife, or your love or however....the cherry, life ain't nothin man. It ain't nothin man. You're a zero, and everything else you're doing is just fucking around.
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Powerful, evocative
What an incredible film, especially for a documentary. This reflection on a seemingly hopeless flophouse and the worn-out, tired men who live in it is stunning in the stark reality it gives the viewer, and the poor residents it reveals are truly fascinating people. They are people who anyone can relate to, who had a dream that didn't quite come to fruition, who had a terrible experience with prejudice or lost love, people who seem like they've had the deck stacked against them from the start. This movie is essential for a viewer who wants to see a movie about the lost dreams of an American city and American lives. It's tracing of the infamous Bowery neighborhood from it's glory days to it's present depressed melancholy environment show a changing America, but an America that has always had nothing but contempt for the losers in life. This film shows how those "losers" deserve sympathy from those less blessed in life--everyone knows someone like them, someone who just didn't get any breaks. There are some truly haunting shots, from a post-September 11th perspective, that show the World Trade Center buildings towering over the bleak city street on which the flophouse resides, but the real lesson in this movie is how our system ruins the lives of good people, like the elderly black Army veteran recounting his terrifying experience in the Jim Crow South during the 1950s, or the charming man who recounts his hopelessness and lack of confidence with women in a frank, honest manner that would have brought a less hardened man to tears. This film is sad and beautiful and unsparing in its truth, and it is an extraordinary movie.
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- Nov 12, 2002
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