Benny and Josh Safdie (2017)
Connie and Nick are brothers, but their ties are not limited to genetics. They are a symbiotic swirl of aggression and possibility. Together the two are impaired with an uncanny blindness. Barriers disappear and strangers' murmurs fizzle out. Their wild, dirt-etched plans are carried out with ferocity and total abandon. Running is their pastime, and they have become proficient dodgers.
Nick is viewed as a liability to society, and Connie is labeled as a danger to it. Newscasters reduce them to mugshots and sensational teleprompter poetry. The city needs villains. The cops need robbers. The pubic needs faces to fear. The brothers need to get to Virginia.
Not a single soul can decipher the calamity in Nick's head, not even Connie. A therapist chisels away at his cranium only to discover that Nick was raised in the wilderness. The professional world clashes with the feral, urban ghetto in a nauseating office. Connie fends off the emotional combat for his brother. Huddled in the corner of a descending elevator, he assures Nick that no one understands their pain.
They steal rather than earn; fight rather than accommodate. They are devoted brutes, writhing in uncontrollable suspicion. Sensitive to blue and red streams, and terrified of separation. Meandering upon steam-breathing streets like amputated Siamese twins. Their conjoined heart palpitates with neon intensity.
Connie has been educated by the cruelty of the city. The assaults upon his brother have toned his muscles and sharpened his wit. He is the unstoppable force that causes officers to be armed. He transcends the status of guardian. Connie is a fable of determination. His good deeds are shadowed by his actions, but his actions are birthed from his compassion.
The brother's story is an expose on the concept of "good". Maybe we should redefine righteousness, and leave room for desperate souls. An "us versus them" mentality erodes the potential kindness of strangers. Connie subverts all social norms in route towards securing his brother's salvation. On this pilgrimage, a restless city tosses in its bed as a two brothers attempt to steal back their birthright of happiness.
Connie and Nick are brothers, but their ties are not limited to genetics. They are a symbiotic swirl of aggression and possibility. Together the two are impaired with an uncanny blindness. Barriers disappear and strangers' murmurs fizzle out. Their wild, dirt-etched plans are carried out with ferocity and total abandon. Running is their pastime, and they have become proficient dodgers.
Nick is viewed as a liability to society, and Connie is labeled as a danger to it. Newscasters reduce them to mugshots and sensational teleprompter poetry. The city needs villains. The cops need robbers. The pubic needs faces to fear. The brothers need to get to Virginia.
Not a single soul can decipher the calamity in Nick's head, not even Connie. A therapist chisels away at his cranium only to discover that Nick was raised in the wilderness. The professional world clashes with the feral, urban ghetto in a nauseating office. Connie fends off the emotional combat for his brother. Huddled in the corner of a descending elevator, he assures Nick that no one understands their pain.
They steal rather than earn; fight rather than accommodate. They are devoted brutes, writhing in uncontrollable suspicion. Sensitive to blue and red streams, and terrified of separation. Meandering upon steam-breathing streets like amputated Siamese twins. Their conjoined heart palpitates with neon intensity.
Connie has been educated by the cruelty of the city. The assaults upon his brother have toned his muscles and sharpened his wit. He is the unstoppable force that causes officers to be armed. He transcends the status of guardian. Connie is a fable of determination. His good deeds are shadowed by his actions, but his actions are birthed from his compassion.
The brother's story is an expose on the concept of "good". Maybe we should redefine righteousness, and leave room for desperate souls. An "us versus them" mentality erodes the potential kindness of strangers. Connie subverts all social norms in route towards securing his brother's salvation. On this pilgrimage, a restless city tosses in its bed as a two brothers attempt to steal back their birthright of happiness.
final words:
DEVOTION BLINDS RESPONSIBILITY