Review of Chop Shop (2008) by Tassiana L — 11 Jan 2010
Man! This guy Bahrani is totally moving on my job as the American neorealist (at least I hope to be) but hey so far he's just east coast. This flick is the real deal and at no moment does it ask for pity from us as viewers.
We see this young kid working the streets with his sister getting barked at, cheated, or pushed around by older folks who work in the junkyards of Queens but we can't weep over it because within this film there are no villains.
Anyone who does 'ill will' to our protagonists probably lived very similar lives as kids and it formed them into the tough hustlers that they are. There is no room for crying. In the small city block, with its cheap streets, piss yellow streetlights, junk all around, and with a looming, cheering baseball stadium standing beyond it, the one recognizable symbol of 'the big apple', this is where cinema is made.
This review of Chop Shop (2008) was written by Tassiana L on 11 Jan 2010.
Chop Shop has generally received very positive reviews.
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