The Acquaintances of a Lonely John
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Review by benhack Patron

The Acquaintances of a Lonely John 2008

★★★½

Watched 15 Jul 2021

perhaps not being his most visually embellished work, The Acquaintances Of a Lonely John still manages to perpetuate the same talent and assiduous filmmaking techniques that benny safdie employs in his more contemporary projects.

A great trope that I've come to appreciate about these Safdie shorts and early works is how the stories delineate not only a merit of themselves but also the subliminal stories that may occur through the sumptuous capacities of NYC. This short also portrays the eclectic sentiments that are tangible from safdies early works, it's arresting to see the genre and mood of the film synergize a thriller as well as a comedy, through an accosting robber to finding out its a humerous and benign outcome.

Its quite evident to also see the progression of meditative craft through these early films through to such serious films as 'Heaven Knows What' and 'Good Time'.
This film just serves as another catalyst in my hype for the safdie/fielder/stone mini series in production.

IM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THE UNCUT GEMS CRITERION!!!

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