Sarah Silverman (Spirits) said it best
Man Push Cart - Who gives sh*t?
sharei agree with you...i ust saw this film...it was so damn annoying. ok your wife died. get over it. if you really loved music...then youldnt quit it so easy..so many problems in this film
shareHe dint quit music beacuse of the death of his wife you douche!.
He was a famous musician in Pakistan, fell in love with a girl.
His parents did not aprove, he left with her to the US, giving up his music to support his family.
His wife dying was just another one of his problems & bother reading the other threads OR atleast WATCH the movie.
The director shows that there never is a happy ending for some people.
The poor guy keeps getting into s**t no matter how hard he tries to sort his life out.
he was still a stupid charector. not realistic
shareI just saw this film at a local film festival, and, okay, this post modern thing has got to stop. It's terribly annoying when a narrative has so many open ended questions that makes the film void of substance. What's the point of writing a screenplay if the audience needs to "imagine" the protaganists motivations. Why don't they just allow us moviegoers to pay for a movie that we can make ourselves. It would have had the same effect as seeing "Man Push Cart". I want my money back!!!
sharehallelujah!
share"It's terribly annoying when a narrative has so many open ended questions that makes the film void of substance."
just because the film didn't directly answer all your questions doesn't mean its void of substance. the film is filled thematically, i suggest reading alburt camus' "the myth of sysiphus" (spelling?) and then rewatching man push cart (its based on that paper). also, i heard the director talk about this film and he said he doesn't like films that insult the audience by telling them everything, instead he likes for the audience to use their imagination to actively become involved w/ the story. i am inclined to agree with this statement...like he said, in life not all of our questions are answered, and he wanted his film to be like life. if you wanted an unrealistic film then watch one, but don't insult a film because you're too lazy to think. all good art forces questions, and usually only lame shlt trys to answer them all. shlt.
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I agree completely. I just watched this movie for the first time after hearing about it a day ago. I'm not sure what people were expecting from this movie that they feel so disappointed. It's obviously supposed to be a film that stays true to life and authentic. Most of the actors aren't actually actors, including the lead. Too many people seem to want to be spoon fed plots and answers, while this film is the opposite of that. Personally I thought it was a good way to spend 80 minutes of my afternoon. Perhaps if there were guns at some point, more people would enjoy it.
shareI got the myth of Sysyphus metaphor in about 2 minutes. Of course, in that story, nobody would've come along and grabbed his 1000lb boulder and ran off with it in a matter of 30 seconds, which is one of the more laughably unrealistic portions of the film.
I have no problem whatsoever with a film that doesn't insist on giving the audience all the answers, PROVIDED the filmmaker spends the previous 90 minutes giving the audience compelling characters, played by compelling actors, in compelling scenes with genuine conflict to watch. None of the aforementioned are provided here. Not to mention the fact that when so few significant questions are posed in the first place, and then none answered, it's not a metaphor for life, it's lazy storytelling. Since almost no illumination of this character's life was gained through this piece, it would've worked far better as a documentary, which is what it should've been. That way we wouldn't have had to sit through the painfully amateurishly improvised "dramatic" scenes that screamed out "non-actors working here."
The instance you cite is NOT a plot hole. If you noticed, Ahmad's friend Ataf (or similar) towed his cart around with a van. There's no reason someone couldn't have taken the cart by towing it way with a car or van (and the movie implied that the guy that Ahmad bought the cart from was dishonest and may have stolen it, assuming Ahmad had gotten the insurance like he told him to.
shareI gotta disagree with that (Ahmad not being a realistic character).
I have spent some time in NYC (around 3 months) with many guys who lead the exact type of life. In fact, I was engaged to one of them. And their lives are very much like that.
Most of them lead a totally empty life, hoping that one day they'll finally find happiness, probably back in their homeland.
Yet, many of these guys are past their prime in age and in their soul. They have left family and friends behind, believing they'll make it big (make enough money to support those they left and give them a better future), but at some point it just becomes clear that their lives will be just "one day after the other" like that. Perhaps, 'till the day they die.
I lived that, I saw that.
Nonotheless, I did find the film too slow-paced and intimist... Or maybe just plain sad. But just because our lives are okay/good, it doesn't mean everybody else's are too.
Shouldn't we, at least, tolerate differences?