You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice break
I came to know Broondock Saints only a couple of years ago, I don't live in the States so this movie only reached me on Must See movie lists. I didn't know what it was about, or who was the director. While I saw that the movie had a restricted budget I got impressed with a bold and solid direction, the grand style of the scenes, the competent art direction, and how easily marketable the whole movie is. Yet no one outside US knows that this movie exists. I had to know why this movie was so poorly distributed.
So I watched Overnight.
At each moment that Duffy opened his mouth more anger built inside me, I was truly hating the guts of this guy. I was totally "god, this man has nothing redeeming about himself"
But then, I realized that Overnight was edited by his 'ex' friends.
I remember my own entourages and the stories of other people, of how best friends became worst enemies because the ice broke, of how much resentment it created with deep feelings of treason and total lack of trust. Worse, that each one involved holds a personal record to justify their actions for the best and the worse. This movie is all about resentment over Duffy, it is the only thing it truly shows.
The biggest evidence is that Overnight mostly jumps the whole production of the Broondock Saints itself. We see a lot of breaking downs over the failure with Wenstein and the band, but nothing about finally getting the movie done, which is where Duffy could be portrayed as an indie jesus.
If you are not sure of how manipulative editing could be, search for 'Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Reality TV Editing' on youtube.
I know that most people would say that would never behave like Duffy, perhaps even Duffy himself would never imagine that he would behave like that. But to get a movie done is a bloody battle and friendly fire happens all the time, especially to naive young people. Yet there is another side of the coin that his old friends (and new enemies) didn't want us to see, probably the side that worked and sold that script, the Duffy's side that directed Boondock Saints and convinced Dafoe to go drag queen and kiss an extra in the mouth.