Synopsis
Are you ready for a Good Time?
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Directed by Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
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Mf could have just changed the channel but instead he chose to go down as a pedophile
A green Sprite bottle, given almost a mythical introduction in a frenetic monologue, slips out of the hand of a character and roles into a puddle of water. The camera, finally imparted from its intense close-ups to a God's eye long shot, lingers just for a second as it rolls into a puddle where it could be misconceived as trash. An object of everyday life that has been signified with narrative agency (A MacGuffin up there with the Arc of the Covenant) once again resembles its indexical reality. No neon lights or close-ups to enlarge its importance, just a piece of misplaced trash left by some dirtbag scum.
This movie is what happens when we observe the trash we avert our eyes to—what we're taught to ignore—and really look at what's inside.
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when robert pattinson dyes his hair blond and runs around erratically he's a good actor but when i do it i'm "hysterical" and "scaring the children"
"I got beat up. I'm the victim here."
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"Cross the room if you've ever been blamed for something you didn't do."
Many months before the films North American release, I joked that Good Time looked like "a modern-day Phil Karlson picture" so I was doubly pleasantly surprised when I found that this film approximated that feeling. In his annual love-letter to Cannes, Mark Peranson called the film "a kind of Dionysian New York Gesamtkunstwerk....immersion without identification." Where Good Time might confuse is that the film is outside of its narrative, it is not asking us to identify with its character(s), yet it revels in capturing the leads (Robert Pattinson's) energy - but it's for this same reason I believe…
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This movie is really good, but incredibly stressful and incredibly upsetting for two specific scenes: one where something awful happens to Barkhad Abdi that made me really sad, and one where Robert Pattinson has an extremely terrible-to-watch interaction with a 16 year-old that somehow I have not seen ONE person mention in the months since this movie was released while everyone was crowing about how good it was. I can't stop thinking about that one scene and it really put a damper on the entire movie for me. Oof.
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A lot of reviewers have keyed into the way this observes how Connie's privilege allows him to keep bucking the system until it has no choice but to arrest him, but to me this is also a powerful story about an emotional abuser and his undeniable love for his brother, who is also his biggest victim. What makes the Safdies' film incredible is how it is able to simultaneously make me root for Connie on his journey to free his brother yet also make me feel uncomfortable at the way he uses his skills at manipulating others and even dread what might happen to his brother if he succeeds.
when benny safdie sheds a single tear when his therapist says ”the beach” he was thinking of moonlight
I'm never drinking a bottle of Sprite that I found in an abandoned amusement park again