31/46

Our love written by Al Hazan performed by The Starr Sisters

Scenario

In the heart of a bustling Times Square kitchen, dreams and desperation collide as each staff member pursues the elusive American dream. This is a great movie that would have been amazing if it were an hour shorter. The same fate befell Killers of the Flower Moon, a nearly 4 hour movie, great but tragically watered down in its impact and impact by its length. Unlike others, I appreciated the decentralized plot of what and how.

It was used as part of a mega Times Square kitchen

It felt like a haddock, something you often feel in the kitchen environment. The huge set from the main house to the back house, the big man upstairs descending to the misfits downstairs, long dizzying panning shots and unexpected moments of deep intimacy/meaning with arbitrary events and people in extreme close-ups, and a kaleidoscope of sounds. Languages ​​and swear words created the brilliant texture that is New York City. The acting was wonderfully natural, with no “natural acting” of any kind, especially the standout work of Raul Briones, Motell Foster’s dreamy monologue, and Lee R.

The title treatments are wonderfully stylized

Sellers’ head chef (must have been plucked from a Brooklyn deli.) The sound design was spot on. In the cinematographer’s work, I didn’t understand why it had to be black and white for no reason and almost dismissed it as a gimmick, but in the end it seemed to pay off – it brought an element of timelessness to the one place where the temporal elements of technology and AI couldn’t be touched. Certain parts of the plot seemed unnecessary, like Rooney Mara’s character’s ant-like pain in the freezer room, which seemed to force depth where there was none, the abortion aspect was enough to make us feel her journey. The flooded kitchen level seemed a bit unreal and garish and for too long, I mean like they were on the Titanic, a little water here and there in the most inconvenient places would have made it seem more chaotic.

Why do you want to capture this feeling?

Also the over the top dialogue about white “guera” women supremacy was a huge turn off and left a bad taste in my mouth even if it was said in jest by some man with stupid manners. Does it matter if you recorded an actual conversation that could happen? No. Are these things that white supremacists think and that here some brown person is asserting and idealizing real?

This is a completely failed attempt at realism

At least you balance it out with another line of dialogue from another man drooling over the superiority and perfection of brown women. The realism that worked was the simultaneous hatred and camaraderie between coworkers, the sloppy food preparation, manipulative management styles, people’s personality disorders, and the lunch break. Overall, 1 hour and 20 minutes would have been much more efficient. Halfway through my shift, I just wanted to wake up from the chaos.