MAN PUSH CART

Man Push Cart

Man Push Cart

Introduction

The Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani's film tells the story of a street vendor, Ahmad (played by Ahmad Razvi, a former pushcart worker), who drags his stall through New York, selling coffee and bagels. It is inspired by the mythical tale of Sisyphus, condemned to spend eternity pushing a rock up a hill, only to watch it roll down again. The monotony, futility and loneliness of Ahmad's routine is accentuated by the fact that he was a famous rock star in his native Pakistan before giving it all up to follow his now-deceased wife to the United States.

Discussion

The film takes a while to get going and is a little too predictable at times, not one to watch if they are craving excitement. The extras are limited to a few stills and the film's trailer. There is a strong acting, beautiful cinematography and a thought-provoking look at the other side of their morning rituals make this film a rewarding watch.

Ahmad (Razvi) is a former Pakistani rock star the Bono of Lahore" whose current livelihood in Manhattan involves operating a coffee pushcart, peddling porn DVDs and doing any odd jobs that come up. His crush on a pretty Spanish newsstand attendant develops into a triangle involving a wealthy Pakistani businessman, who blurs the line between helping and exploiting Ahmad. In carefully detailing the repetitive grind of Ahmad's life, the film occasionally drags and has a didactic, sentimental side with Ahmad's lost celebrity over egging an already poignant situation. In fact, the compassion is undeniable in a film that captures the jumbled anonymity of the New York streets as Taxi Driver once did.

Misfortune was happen is due to because, the poor Ahmad came from Pakistan to New York to visit his wife and son happy. In fact, the first died, and the second is held by a step family with little tolerance. He was a rock star in Pakistan. He sells coffee and donuts on one of the main avenues of the city inhumane. Between cameras movements could not be more repetitive and the atmosphere of dark too depressed to not tired, Man Push Cart is not convincing in painting a cruel world. The image trembles constantly. Everything seems to secret, hidden, unspeakable, in a word illegal. The lights are almost absent from the film most scenes were filmed at night, but even when the day ...