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Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Jogo Mortal, 미키 앤 니키, 마이키 앤 니키, Mikey et Nicky, Mikey e Nicky, Mikey i Nicky, Мики и Ники, Mikey und Nicky, 麦基与尼基, 믹키 앤 닉키, Mikey és Nicky, Mikey y Nicky, Mikey & Nicky, Jaget af fortiden
every time i watch this i get something different out of it!!! today it’s about when you realize that the friend you’ve devoted years of your life to loving has changed into someone you barely recognize — someone who used to make you feel like the truest version of yourself, but who now dredges up your most vile insecurities. the only way to save your soul is to amputate them like a gangrenous limb, and that process is just as painful as it sounds.
in short, it’s about how sometimes you gotta ghost your shitty friend before you become the shitty friend 👻
ii. he's in the air that you breath and the laugh that you take and the hitch in your throat when you tell him that after you die, you are nothing and you return to the earth from whence you came.
(you will never see him again after tonight, will you?)
iii. he mistakes teasing for love and cruelty for intimacy. his way of getting close is stabbing you with a knife and cackling about it afterwards. he mocks you for your insecurities and your flaws but he notices the little things. he notices the big things too. his eyes glow with a hot sort of fervor as you stride under the city lights. you…
Need proof the world isn't as great as it used to be (in regards to movie-going options anyway)? At one point Cassevetes as Nicky gets the urge to go to the movies. "It's after midnight, where are you going to go to the movies?" Peter Falk's Mikey asks.
"There's the all night place that shows double features. Has the candy bar that stays open and serves ice cream sandwiches." Later when a hitman played by Ned Beatty goes looking for Nicky at this theater, we see that it's playing a kung fu movie. So you're telling me that in 1973 Philadelphia there was an all-night movie theater that had ice cream sandwiches and kung fu double features? Get right out…
made my friends go see this (one of my top 4 favs!!!) with me because it serendipitously happened to be playing the day before my birthday. when it ended one of them hesitantly said “... do you want my honest opinion” (i smiled and said no) and another said “THIS is how you wanted to celebrate your birthday??? i’m UPSET”
yes! it’s MY birthday and I get to pick the depressing cassavetes picture 🥳
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