John's Gone2010

I've watched this short 3 times. I can't write that I liked it, but I also am unable to write that I disliked it. "John's Gone" is just sort of hard to dismiss. There is something of merit here.

This Safdie Brothers film is about as mundane and aimless as a film can ever get. The thing is that once it starts it is hard to stop watching.

What is it about? Grief and eccentricity lost amid the chaos of New York City? Perhaps it is a sort of twisted love letter to NYC. Or maybe what you see is what you get: An unhappy slob trying to hustle his way through life as he continually encounters people and interactions that always seem to almost be headed for absurd comedy or strange tragedy.

I watched this film three times because I've had a very hard time trying to decide how I feel about it. This is, for me, always the case with the films that Josh and Benny Safdie produce.

"John's Gone" appears like a messy afterthought that may or may not be a great sort of jazz riff about modern urban American life. There again, it might just be a messy film that somehow holds the threat of being genuinely interesting. I'm just not sure.

My name's Mohamed and I like movies.

good film

*****!

Smoother transitions and a better screenplay would have helped this farce.

Really funny, even before the monkey shows up. Despite its silliness, however, "Gone" is believable. It's easy to imagine a real person living their life in as out-of-touch a way as John. You probably even know one or two. What does that say about society?

no.

SUCKS

lovin' it!

my Favorite moment: Abner Jay at the end. John, what a guy! Smoke him BABEH, whoah!!

bad film

I have no idea what that was about.