Booster
I was lucky enough to see this film at the Boston Film Festival. It is one of the best movies I have seen all year. Nico Stone's portrayal of Simon, a small-time shoplifter, caught in an impossible dilemma, is quietly intense. He uses body language and minimal means to convey a young man trapped by a conflict between his obligation to family and his essential morality. The director Matt Ruskin, uses a tight, yet almost documentary style, to build the claustrophobic world that Simon has to negotiate. Amazing that an essentially simple and quiet film with no flash-bangs got its hooks so deeply into me. I cared a great deal about what was going to happen to Simon.
BOOSTER
I thought the morals values that people discover in their own lives can be challenging.
It was enlightening to see a young man go through the sequences of deciding the best
route to take. Fabulous actors, direction and crew!
great indie
this film sets an amazing dark mood, similar to TAXI DRIVER or DRIVE and never lets go. one of the things that i see indies fail to do again and again is to get tone right... and this one excels at it. from start to finish i was riveted by the world. i have never seen boston like this in a movie before.
there are great performances, amazing photography. this is better than most hollywood thriller/action/crime movies that i see, by a long shot.
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